AONN.gov mirror: http://www.mccullagh.org/misc/aonn/ And here's my article, which appeared two days earlier: http://news.com.com/2100-1023-983384.html This is apparently AONN.gov's new home: http://www.dsispecialaccess.net/ -Declan --- http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/07/HNmysterysite_1.html The case of the mysterious .gov site No one knows where it came from By Grant Gross February 07, 2003 WASHINGTON -- A U.S. Department of Defense spokesman has never heard of the group that operated AONN.gov, and the U.S. General Services Administration has pulled the site's .gov domain because of questions about the organization's connection to the U.S. government. Still, Robert L. Taylor III, chief information officer of Access One Network Northwest, continues to claim he operates a "clandestine" cybersecurity and intelligence agency supported by the Deparment of Defense (DOD), according to an e-mail statement attributed to Taylor sent in response to IDG News Service questions. The e-mail was sent by someone purporting to be the webmaster at AONN.gov's companion site, dsispecialaccess.net. In a plot worthy of "The X-Files," the General Services Administration (GSA), which assigns .gov domains, yanked the AONN.gov domain in late January, but declined to comment on how Taylor's group received the URL (uniform resource locator) in the first place. The GSA issued a statement Thursday: "There is question about the authenticity of the web site that included the AONN name. Until the situation is resolved, we have eliminated the URL from the dot gov directory name server." [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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