Exagerated in terms of complexity and conspiracy, but not in terms of effects probably. Nationalist mass rage is in a way much more scary than some government action.
All I had to do was create a blank text file, copy and paste the URLs of any Web sites that I wanted to attack, specify how many times these sites should be pinged, and copy and paste a few lines of code from the original instructions.
That's more like it. The whole thing would have been funny if it weren't for the actual tanks and stuff.