FC: NSA admits computer systems were down

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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> From: "ama-gi ISPI" <ispi4privacy () earthlink net>
> To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan () well com>
> Subject: NSA admits human frailties
> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 12:35:28 -0800
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300
>
> Declan,
>
> FYI
>
> Mark Hughes
> Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI)
>
>
> Kinder, gentler NSA admits human frailties
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/000131-000001.html
>
> by
> Thomas C. Greene in Washington
>
> An admission by the US National Security Agency (NSA) that its computer
> networks were crippled for three days last week is a puzzling development
> for an organisation normally loath to admit so much as its own existence.
> Nevertheless, the agency issued a press release on Saturday admitting that
> its systems were down for three days, but hastening to add that they had
> since been repaired satisfactorily.
> :
> :
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