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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), which was created last year to guard against such attacks. And over the weekend the NIPC announced that it already had a lead - a 20-year-old German college student/cyberpunk called Mixter was believed to be behind one of the three "smurf" attacks that caused the disruptions. Yet it wasn't so much the work of NIPC that led law-enforcement to Mixter as the efforts of a band of private cyber-detectives. The California-based Network Associates, hired by the disrupted sites, was the entity able to secure the cooperation of tech firms across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Web, the Police Are Likely to Be Private | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

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