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

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 21:05:27 -0500
> From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
> Subject: Senate web site dies, Clinton stresses Net-reliability
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34362,00.html
>
> The Crash of a Dot.Gov, by Declan McCullagh (declan () wired com)
>
> Wired, 15 Feb 2000
>
> 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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