[iwar] Historical posting


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             Spy computers 'spammed'

Perhaps you noticed even more cyberfrustration than usual

Thursday as e-mails with words like "manifesto," "terrorism,"

"bomb" and "kill Bill Clinton" were slung around the Net.

Not to worry -- it was a bit of a prank meant to irritate

government agents who the pranksters say monitor communication

for subversion. The system that the pranksters find offensive

is known as Echelon, which some say monitors 2 million worldwide

communications per hour. So on Thursday "hactivists" sent as

many e-mails as they could full of keywords meant to trigger

the system in the hopes of overloading it.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2378805,00.html

http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/073936.htm

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32039,00.html



Australian Republican Office Systems Attacked In 'Infowar'

An Australian Republican campaign office suffered from an attack on

its telephone systems on Thursday morning, resulting in its call

center and e-mail systems going down and the New South Wales state

police being called in to investigate. The Australian Republican

Movement is a campaign group promoting an Australian head of state.

In several weeks all Australians will vote in a referendum on whether

to replace the Queen with a president and become a republic.

http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/99/138185.html



NK Website Contact to be Restricted

At a National Security Council (NSC) meeting Thursday, chaired by

Minister for Unification Lim Dong-won, it was decided that

communication and exchange with certain North Korean websites would

be restricted. A spokesman said that browsing would be allowed freely,

but that to exchange e-mail or sign in for membership would require

government permission.

http://www.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/199910/199910210546.html



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