Words will never hurt me?

Misuse of language is turning 'ordinary, decent computer criminals' into 'cyberterrorists' who menace world peace.

Misuse of language is turning 'ordinary, decent computer criminals' into 'cyberterrorists' who menace world peace.

While the tanks were rolling into Georgia during the recent military conflict with Russia, there was, apparently, a simultaneous “cyber war”, with Russian forces accused of conducting widescale denial-of-service attacks against Georgia's internet infrastructure.

And this isn't the first time Russia has done it, some believe. In May 2007, following violent protests after the removal of a war memorial in Tallinn, a number of Estonia's official websites were defaced or subjected to denial-of-service attacks.

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