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John Palmer (jp@tygra.Michigan.COM) wrote:
: In article <3a3330$knn@newsbf01.news.aol.com> divoman@aol.com (Divoman) writes:
: "In article <3a0a4u$fq3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, el428@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
: "(Todd D. Benner) writes:
: "
: ">>I'm punching this post in via the Cleveland Freenet, 'cause the GDFN
: ">>has been down for TWO WHOLE DAYS NOW!!!
: "
: "I'm having the same problem so on AOL at the moment.
: "
: "Maynard

: It is still down. Being that the machine in on the US Army's LAN at the
: Tank Plant (where they make Abrahms tanks), I think they are VERY 
: nervous about this one!!

: Guess everyone will have to wander over to The Hutch (hutch.rabbit.net). 
: Free accts till 02/01

The Army isn't at all nervous about this.  The FreeNet machine is not 
connected to any Army machines.  They've said so in the local 
newspapers.  The problem is that a hacker broke through the FreeNet 
security and just about destroyed it.  This person knew what he needed to 
delete to get the system to crash, and make it hard to recover.  There 
have been several stories in the Detroit Free Press on it.  The folks at 
the FreeNet admit to being lax on security because they didn't think 
anyone would want to hack on a system that gives access to everybody.  
Unfortunately, they didn't understand the psychology of hackers.

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