****************** DAIMLERCHRYSLER ******************* the cnn report on the disruption of access to the nato web site (http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9903/31/nato.hack/) reads: > NATO's Web site is under deliberate electronic "bombardment" from Yugoslavia > that has made e-mail service and access to the site "erratic," NATO spokesman > Jamie Shea said Wednesday. [...] > > Additionally, Shea said NATO's e-mail servers were being "saturated by one > individual who is currently sending us 2,000 e-mails a day." > > "And we are dealing with macro viruses from Yugoslavia in our e-mail service," > he said. > > Shea did not say whether the "macro viruses" he mentioned were from the > recently released "Melissa" virus that causes e-mail recipients to unknowingly > spread infected files to other e-mail users. [...] doesn't that leave you at least a little curious about who is managing nato's inbox and how that job is done? despite everyone telling you they were all info soldiers now, that rather sounds like: "look, we've got mail from yugoslavia." "shit, that one guy again?" "no, it's an excel file. the message says it's important." "oh really? what's it about?" "don't know yet. so far, it only says that macros must not be deactivated." "go on then..." or was that just world's largest television network giving bandwidth to world's largest military network in order to explain they were "dealing with macro viruses from Yugoslavia" by avoiding to mess with any attachments? if that's what nato tried to communicate, shouldn't they have declared at least something like: "those 15.000 macro editors in yugoslavia do not mean any serious threat to our military infrastructure"? still puzzled... ******************************************************************************** ROLUX h0444wol@rz.hu-berlin.de http://www2.hu-berlin.de/~h0444wol/rolux/