Al-Qaeda internet plot reports are 'scare-mongering'

According to a senior government security advisor, reports that there was an Al-Qaeda plot to take down the UK's internet access by sabotaging Telehouse Europe are 'scare-mongering'.

Reports stated that a plot to sabotage the colocation company had been foiled by MI5, and that had the plot succeeded, the UK would have been denied the internet for an unspecified amount of time.

The security advisor told ZDNet UK this simply could not happen as described. The internet is designed to be resilient, and that many points of contact are linked to many other points of contact, making internet access more difficult to stifle than that.