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RE: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)

  • From: Declan McCullagh
  • Date: Wed Feb 09 14:59:45 2000

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