-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sure. That's what it is: "architectural changes". I heard the Naval War College was doing that, too. :-) http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/12/mystery_hacker_.html - - ferg - -- "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com> wrote: On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

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They took their systems offline a few weeks ago: http://www.fcw.com/article97160-12-19-06-Web

Right -- something's definitely going on on that part of the world. See http://fcw.com/article97178-12-22-06-Web which talks about how DoD is banning HTML email (what a wonderful thought in any event!) and Outlook Web Access. Why? The threat level has been raised from Information Condition 5 to Information Condition 4 -- but they won't say why....

why terrorists of course... :) in all seriousness, perhaps they are doing some architectural changes to better secure their perimeter in light of (as the hawaii.edu gentleman pointed out) the internet becoming more and more critical to the common person? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.2 (Build 4075) wj8DBQFFmvd8q1pz9mNUZTMRAtmdAJ9Ywah+H+vITdYSI5nMtvia1deOaQCggnxn m7+UFpHQwDFr2a/fa6+iYfU= =i5RY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/