Maybe. But nobody is massively worried about the script kiddies. What they're worrying about is things like the Russian government sponsored cyber-attacks on the whole internet infrastructure of the Baltic States that have happened during times of political tension. A several week long period where people were unable to effectively access government services online, made worse by the fact that the Baltics all decided to do lots of their government online, so they're much more reliant on it than say Western Europe or the US. Even though we're going in the same direction.
What happens if some state has a major political falling-out with another, and decides to use a cyber-attack to disable their electricity system? It's never happened on that kind of scale yet, so we don't know how hardened those systems are or how much damage it would do, or how long it would take to recover? Are we talking a few billion of damage and a major inconvenience, or throwing a country into recession for a year?
That's not to mention all the recent shennanigans on social media trying to influence elections. I suspect that this will have no more effect than propoganda did in the Cold War - it's just that social media is new and people weren't used to it and how it impacted on the way they saw news.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
