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19th February 2000 Archive

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  • Law enforcers the ‘absolute worst people’ for Net security – former Fed

    Hmmm...our hacker buddies may be smarter than they appear

    The chief legacy of this month's escalation in malicious distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks will undoubtedly be a ham-handed ploy by federal and state law enforcement bodies to exploit populist insecurities in quest of vastly increased powers of intervention in Net security. We've already seen US Attorney General Janet …

    Business 19 Feb 2000, 19:14

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