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Nine UK Government Websites Disrupted By Anti-Smoking Hacker

Calendar Aug 16, 2000 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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Steve Gold writes "An anti-smoking hacker is reported to have taken down at least nine British government Web sites in the last 24 hours, Sky News reported this morning." We see more and more of this every day: welcome . . . Steve Gold writes "An anti-smoking hacker is reported to have taken down at least nine British government Web sites in the last 24 hours, Sky News reported this morning." We see more and more of this every day: welcome to the world of 'cyber-terrorism.'

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