NSA's Web Site Rendered Inaccessible

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON -- The Web site for the National Security Agency, which has been under scrutiny over domestic wiretaps it conducted without warrants, was inaccessible for more than seven hours Friday.

A spokesman, Don Weber, declined to say whether the site suffered an attack by hackers or a technical glitch. Speaking shortly after the site went back online, he said only that employees had worked to restore access.
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"This condition would indicate to me that either the site is being overwhelmed with legitimate users or a (denial of service) attack," said Shawn White, the director for Keynote's external operations.

The NSA, known for eavesdropping and code breaking, also helps protect computer systems deemed vital to the nation's security, such as those involved in intelligence, cryptography and weapons.
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Internet records indicate the NSA's Web site is contracted to Lingual Information System Technologies Inc. of Columbia, Md. An operator there said no executives were available to comment on the outage because they had left for the holiday weekend.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/13/AR2006011301623.html

[High Plains]

1. I'm scared to post on this thread...

[BattyDem]

2. So ... the National Security Agency can't even secure its own web site!

:rofl:

Hmmm ... you know ... on second thought, that isn't funny. :scared:

[Pastiche423]

8. Why isn't it funny?

I think it's hilarious!

[BattyDem]

9. It's funny until you really think about it

If they can't even secure a web site, how the hell can they secure a COUNTRY? :shrug:

[DBoon]

10. Well, who really controls the Internet?

Well funded police state agencies or armies of hackers?

The NSA has just found the answer.

[Centered]

12. hardly

DoS attacks are far from elite, and there aren't armies of hackers out there stupid enough to mess with the NSA, the only way they could find you faster would be if you stripped naked, painted yourself purple with pink polka dots and ran across the white house lawn screaming "It was me! It was me!!"

This would have been a script kiddie who's parents are about to get a hell of a fine. Besides the whole point of hacking is NOT to let them know you were there.

[fujiyama]

13. Remember

this is the same NSA that translated the 9.11 "Zero hour" message a day AFTER 9.11.

Completely arrogant, yet incompetant agency that has no oversight and thinks it's above the law.

[sarcasmo]

3. I am not scared at all. This is what needs to happen. I have been saying

this all along, Hackers are our friends and the enemy of the current administration. If a Hacker could over ride control of the MSM satellites we could have a weekend of the truth being spoken on TV.

[ShockediSay]

4. I used dial-up to post on British Message boards

Was I eavesdropped?

'Scuse me, sounds like someone's trying to break down my door ...

[librechik]

5. classic Friday Night News Dump

no comment til whenever!

[Salviati]

6. You mean this site?

http://www.nsa.gov/home_html.cfm ?

Maybe someone should put up a story about it on Slashdot. I'm sure that the people on that forum would like to see what all the fuss is about...

:evilgrin:

[wordpix2]

7. BOB BARR, former Repug Congressman, says freedom, Constitution at risk

Bob "Impeach Clinton" Barr said this on NPTV's "NOW" with David Brancaccio.

Barr will join Gore (!!!!) at Gore's speech on MONDAY.

Un-fuckingbelievable!!!

[f-bush]

11. Gee, what a surprise!

This government is run by a bunch of fucking Nazi's who need to be tried as war criminals (with the same outcome that happened to them!)

I can't believe the American people are such cowed sheep. We need to rise up against this and show shrub what happened to Nixon, will happen to him also!