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Subject: [LeftLibertarian] Spy Agency Confirms Computer Outage
Date: Sunday, January 30, 2000 6:38 AM

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Could this have been a hacker?  Maybe not -- they usually like to take credit
for their work.

\Dewaine Reo McBride


 Spy Agency Confirms Computer Outage
The Associated Press
Saturday, Jan. 29, 2000; 10:06 p.m. EST

WASHINGTON �� The super-secret National Security Agency confirmed Saturday
night that it had a "serious computer problem" last week that affected its
ability to process intelligence information.

The agency issued a brief statement a few hours after the outage was reported
by ABC News, which said its sources characterized the problem as the biggest
computer failure in the history of the NSA.

"This problem, which was contained to the NSA headquarters complex at Fort
Meade, Md., did not affect intelligence collection, but did affect the
processing of intelligence information," the agency statement said. "NSA
systems were impacted for 72 hours."

It said the outage started at 7 p.m. EST Monday and that the system was
restored on Thursday.

"There was no evidence of malice or no evidence of a Y2K problem," said an
agency official who asked not to be identified by name.

"Contingency plans were immediately put into effect that called on other
aspects of the NSA system to assume some of the load," the agency statement
said. "While intelligence collection continued, NSA technicians worked to
recover the IT (information technology) infrastructure. That backlog of
intelligence processing is almost complete and NSA is confident that no
significant intelligence information has been lost."

The statement said the agency "is currently operating within the window of
normal operations."

Until a few years ago, the National Security Agency was so secret there was
no public acknowledgment by the government of its existence and employees
could be disciplined for merely saying they worked there.

It specializes in electronic intelligence gathering through satellites,
telephone intercepts and other methods.

The Defense Department acknowledged earlier this month that it made mistakes
in its pre-New Year's Eve testing of a Y2K correction for a computer system
that processes imagery from intelligence satellites.

The computer system broke down that night, interrupting the flow of by
satellite information for several hours.

However, the Pentagon insisted the trouble did not jeopardize U.S. national
security.

� Copyright 2000 The Associated Press


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