Could the UK's web connection be wiped out by a single attack on its backbone, the London Internet Exchange?
Around 90 per cent of all email and internet traffic in the UK flows through the cables and switches of Linx. Critics have said that this concentration of electronic data poses a risk of terrorists...
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