There was an item on the news tonight about computer crime, which claimed that one in three personal computers have been invaded by computer criminals. At the end of the item, they claimed that the Bali bomber had a number of stolen credit card numbers on his own computer and, over a shot of bagged victims' corpses, intoned darkly something like "Was your credit card used to fund a terrorist attack?"
Just now Caroline Robinson came on with an ad for Nightline, and said something along the lines of "One in three personal computers may have been used to fund a terror attack."
Yellow journalism. Scaremongering and downright irresponsible. I find it grotesque.
Posted by pearce at December 8, 2004 8:35 PM