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

[Declan McCullagh <declan () wired com>]

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