The Fed made up UFO stories to cover military flights. Later on, morons who believe this end up breaking into Feds computers looking for evidence. Ah, irony. Blowback is what Intelligence calls it when, e.g., soldiers you trained and armed to repel your mutual enemy do so, then turn on you.

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More Naked Gun than Top Gun

THE THREE year long case of the world's most notorious "information warfare" attack on US government computer systems collapsed last Friday. On a grey morning in a south London court, a 23-year-old computer programmer from Cardiff walked free as crown prosecutors told the judge it wasn't worth the cost of trying to hold his trial. They acknowledged that he had posed no threat to security.

But Matthew Bevan, who was obsessed with the X-Files and the search for alien spacecraft, and his 16-year-old accomplice, Richard Pryce, had achieved a notoriety out of all proportion to their actions. They were "Kuji" and "Datastream Cowboy" - hackers whose haphazard penetration of US Air Force and defense contractors' computers have been portrayed since 1994 as the work of foreign agents and the greatest electronic danger yet to hit the US Air Force on its home turf.

------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig@otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu Information is a dense, colorless, odorless material readily transmitted across empty space and arbitrary boundaries by shaking charged particles.