[punky]

Makes me laugh at the lack of prinicpals terrorists have. These Taliban styling terrorists use the greatest most recent western invention, which was part designed by the U.S. military and part by U.S. civilians. They are quick to use the Internet though when it suits them. It's almost as funny when I saw the insurgents in Iraq driving a Chevrolet.

With regards to the fact westerners haven't done it yet, well there are two sides to it. Firstly the expertise and resources are out there to perform denial-of-service attacks, ask Microsoft or Amazon. The only thing is there hasn't been the motivation to consildate sporadic efforts to cause significant damage, which is where radical Islam comes in. The other side is, the Internet is hard to disable because of it;s very design. The U.S. military came up with the idea of a network that can sustain damage, either physical or technical, and carry on going. Even if the terrorists had significant backing, they would never disable the Internet entirely.

It might inconvience people and slow down others (Australians should be worried; their isloation makes them fairly susceptible. America, Europe and Asia are very well connected though), but wouldn't knock it out entirely.