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Message-ID: <008801c2d36f$cfa65410$6601a8c0@rms2>
From: rms at computerbytesman.com (Richard M. Smith)
Subject: Feds say: Don't hack Iraq

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/044/nation/FBI_warns_patriot_hackers_a
gainst_waging_cyber_attackP.shtml

COMPUTER TACTICS
FBI warns 'patriot hackers' against waging cyber attack 

By David Pace, Associated Press, 2/13/2003 

WASHINGTON -- Real patriots don't hack. Uncle Sam says only he can do
that. 

The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center warned yesterday
that growing tensions between the United States and Iraq could lead to
an increase in global computer hacking activities on both sides. 

''Regardless of the motivation, the NIPC reiterates such activity is
illegal and punishable as a felony,'' the agency warns on its website.
''The US government does not condone so-called `patriot hacking' on its
behalf. 

''Further, even `patriotic hackers' can be fooled into launching attacks
against their own interests by exploiting malicious code that purports
to attack the other side when in fact it is designed to attack the
interests of the side sending it,'' the agency said. 

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