] In that statement, Clarke claimed that Slammer "disabled
] some root servers, the heart of Internet traffic." Not
] true. A report from the RIPE Network Coordination
] Center--one of the Internet's four regional
] registries--said that at most the worm slowed
] connectivity to two of the 13 root servers and did not
] disable any of them. "This did not cause any degradation
] in (domain name system) service," RIPE concluded.
]
] Clarke also claimed that "a national election/referendum
] in Canada was canceled" due to computer mischief. At
] best, that was a reckless exaggeration. What actually
] happened is that Canada's New Democratic Party held a
] leadership convention and found their Internet voting to
] be sluggish. CBC reported that voting was completed just
] 45 minutes behind schedule.

Declan republished this old article in which he accused Rickard Clarke of being a bit of an exagerator.