FC: Update on Virus news site editor and vmyths.com being offline

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Sat Oct 20 2001 - 14:15:33 PDT

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    Late Thursday night I sent this to Politech:
    
      "Virus news site editor reports late-night visit by Feds"
      http://www.politechbot.com/p-02674.html
    
    Vmyths.com had run an article detailing how one of their editors was 
    requested not to publish certain information on grounds of national 
    security. At the time I sent out the Politech message, about 36 hours ago, 
    vmyths.com was online. By early Friday morning, the site had gone offline 
    and is still unreachable.
    
    I just got off the phone with vmyths.com editor Rob Rosenberger. He says 
    the outage is just coincidence and they've been having problems with their 
    database server. Rob says that he gets attacked frequently with DOS attacks 
    too. The site will be up after it's rebooted shortly, Rob predicts.
    
    Rob, who is in the Air Force Reserves 
    (http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,45812,00.html), says he got 
    back from active duty yesterday. "I've been cleared by military public 
    affairs to admit that I've returned to duty on September 11 and was 
    released on October 19. I'm part of an aeromedical airlift wing."
    
    -Declan
    
    
    
    
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