FC: Senate web site dies, Clinton stresses Net-reliability

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34362,00.html

                       The Crash of a Dot.Gov
                       by Declan McCullagh (declan () wired com)

                       3:20 p.m. 15.Feb.2000 PST
                       WASHINGTON -- As government aides
                       were frantically preparing for the
                       president's last-minute Internet-reliability
                       summit with technology leaders,
                       thousands of visitors couldn't reach the
                       U.S. Senate's own Web site.

                       It was offline for over nine hours Monday,
                       from early afternoon to after 11 p.m.
                       (EST) due to technical problems, Senate
                       officials said.

                       The embarrassing site failure comes just
                       as the U.S. government is telling private
                       firms how important it is that they
                       increase the reliability and security of
                       their own networks.

                       "Our administration has been working for
                       years now to reduce vulnerabilities in
                       government computers and to encourage
                       the private sector to do more," President
                       Clinton said before Tuesday's one-hour
                       meeting with corporate information
                       officers, academics, and Cabinet
                       members.

                       [...]


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