[27129] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Wed Feb 9 14:56:47 2000
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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 14:09:03 -0500
To: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@wired.com>
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At 10:37 2/9/2000 -0800, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
>It would make one hell of an excuse for those wishing more government(s)
>involvement/control....
Even though I live in DC, I'm not that conspiratorial. Though I do note
that the attack started the same day the president introduced his budget,
which has a big increase in "cyberterrorism" defense and a HUGE increase in
wiretappability funding :)
More:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34164,00.html
-Declan
