【正确答案】Doomsayers postulated that Code Red Worm embodied a new type of conflict that represented no less than an electronic Pearl Harbour. But the hijacked airliners that crashed in North America two months later changed all that, and blew the e-warfare doomsaying theories out of the water. Virus and security expert Nick Fitzgerald said: Cyber-everything as the next big threat became "the whipping boy of post-Cold War fear mongers after the Berlin Wall fell."