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The Setup What do billions of dollars, billions of useless books, and billions of prophetic statements have in common? If you guessed the infamous Y2K rollover, you are probably one of the millions of people who were informed of some global catastrophe set to take place the first of this year. There was not a paper in publication these last few years that didn't mention.....

10:50 a.m. 9.Feb.2000 PST Hackers, who pride themselves on Web attacks with a purpose, are scornful of the "packet monkeys" responsible for this week's attacks on Yahoo, CNN, and other high-profile sites. The cracker or crackers responsible for the attacks have been contemptuously dubbed "packet monkeys" because their exploits involve flooding a site with packets of information and, detractors say, betray a distinctly simian intelligence......

 The Federal Aviation Administration skips key background checks on workers, leaves open known security holes, doesn’t even use passwords sometimes and has inadequate firewalls, the report says.      The air-traffic control system hasn’t been successfully attacked, but at least one hacker has broken into an FAA e-mail server. And a year after identifying holes in one FAA system, contractors found the agency had not fixed.....