By the way, there was a thing in the Yahoo/Reuters feed about "attacks" on DoD computers; apparently British police arrested a "hacker" the other day. Anyway, the article included a claim that there have been 250,000 attempted break-ins on DoD computers over the past year.

Does anybody know how they count

Mike M Nally wrote: that?

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Probably the same way other things are counted when used to make a political point (# of homeless people, # of date rape victims, etc.). Make a wild-ass guess based on a very small sample, then multiply by a factor of 10 or 100. I think lying with statistics has become a national pastime recently. I tend to not trust numbers issued by folks who stand to gain from the use of the numbers. Clay *************************************************************************** Clay Olbon II * Clay.Olbon@dynetics.com Systems Engineer * PGP262 public key on web page Dynetics, Inc. * http://www.msen.com/~olbon/olbon.html ***************************************************************** TANSTAAFL