http://news.com.com/2100-1023-949564.html?tag=politech FBI's Web sites plunge into darkness By Declan McCullagh August 13, 2002, 8:48 AM PT WASHINGTON--The FBI accidentally pulled the plug on its own Web sites Tuesday morning. A misconfiguration in the bureau's domain name setup meant that many visitors to FBI.gov could not get through. As of 8:30 a.m. PT, the FBI's configuration problem had not been fixed. The apparent error also wiped out the online presence of the FBI's high-tech crime unit, the National Infrastructure Protection Center, at NIPC.gov. An FBI spokesman said Tuesday that the glitch was accidental and was not the result of a malicious attack. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan CNET Radio 9:40 am ET weekdays: http://cnet.com/broadband/0-7227152.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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