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To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (35174)	12/14/1999 9:37:00 PM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 99985

This is a Classic!!!! Government asks hackers for Y2K break President Clinton's Y2K guru asks for a hack moratorium during the New Millennium weekend. By Jim Wolf, Reuters December 14, 1999 10:52 AM PT WASHINGTON -- President Clinton's top aide on Y2K matters has urged computer hackers to exercise self-restraint until after year 2000 technology fears largely have passed. In an unusual plea for mercy, John Koskinen, chairman of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion, said that some people regard piercing computer network security to be a "great public service" because it calls attention to security cracks. "Hopefully those people will recognize we're going to have enough things going on that (New Year's) weekend that this will not be a particularly good weekend to demonstrate the need for more information security," he said on Monday. One major concern of authorities is that confusion during the century date change could mask a wide range of malicious anti-U.S. activity, including possible computer-based attacks by hostile nations or guerrillas. Michael Vatis, the FBI agent who serves as the nation's top "cyber-cop," said last week that the interagency outfit he heads -- the National Infrastructure Protection Center -- would be on alert although it had no hard evidence of any planned attacks. "It's natural to expect there might be people doing stupid things with computers," he said of possible cyber attacks timed to exploit any high-tech confusion sparked by the century date change. "Increased vigilance" urged Bruce McConnell, a former White House information technology expert who now runs the U.N.-sponsored International Y2K Cooperation Center, said viruses timed to trigger on Jan. 1 appeared to be spreading, notably hidden in e-mail attachments. zdnet.com