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Re: Chinese hackers plan week-long attack on American websites an

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Goldstein)
Fri Apr 20 23:37:35 2001

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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 23:34:02 -0400
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
From: Steve Goldstein <sgoldste@nsf.gov>
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Folks,

Sad to say, but about a month ago, Friends and Partners was hacked to 
death. Not sure where the hacker was, but evidence points to a 
non-U.S. origin.   It took the SysAdmin an entire week, almost 
around-the-clock, to re-construct it.  It now runs on MacOS X rather 
than Linux.

--Steve


At 3:00 PM -0700 4/20/01, Dan Hollis wrote:
>On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, scott w wrote:
>>  > >	Can't we all just get along???
>>  > heh, obviously not ...
>>  Yes we can...  http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/mirnet
>
>but thats russians, not chinese. russians are often exasperated at the
>shenanigans of their chinese allies.
>
>-Dan



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