Wonder if any current .gov domains are owned by individuals pulling a prank?
-Declan
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:46:20 -0500 From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FC: Feds pull plug on suspicious "cyberwarfare" .gov site I've placed a mirror of AONN.gov here: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/aonn/ Alternatively, here's the AONN.gov homepage from Google's cache: http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:1JEsrM4RI4oC:www.aonn.gov/+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 -Declan --- http://news.com.com/2100-1023-983384.html Feds pull suspicious .gov site By Declan McCullagh February 5, 2003, 4:00 AM PT WASHINGTON--In a move that raises questions about the security of governmental domains, the Bush administration has pulled the plug on a .gov Web site pending an investigation into the authenticity of the organization that controlled it. Until recently, visitors to the AONN.gov Web site were treated to a smorgasbord of information about an agency calling itself the Access One Network Northwest (AONN), a self-described cyberwarfare unit claiming to employ more than 2,000 people and had the support of the U.S. Department of Defense. No federal agency called AONN appears to exist, and no agency with that name is on the official list of organizations maintained by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. The General Services Administration (GSA), which runs the .gov registry, pulled the domain on Jan. 24, after a query from CNET News.com. "There are questions about the authenticity of the Web site that includes the AONN name," the agency said in an e-mail reply. "Until the situation is resolved, we have eliminated the URL from the .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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
