Hackers issued Internet security warning in 1998 - The Killeen Daily Herald
Watch a Video: In May 1998, a group of hackers with names like Space Rogue and Kingpin testified before a Senate committee that they could take down the Internet in 30 minutes. Your computers, they told the panel of senators in May 1998, are not safe — not the software, not the hardware, not the networks that link them together. The companies that build these things don't care, the hackers continued, and they have no reason to care because failure costs them nothing. And the federal government has neither the skill nor the will to do anything about it. "If you're looking for computer security, then the Internet is not the place to be," said Mudge, then 27 and looking like a biblical prophet with long brown... The Internet itself, he added, could be taken down "by any of the seven individuals seated before you" with 30 minutes of well-choreographed keystrokes. The testimony from L0pht, as the hacker group called itself, was among the most audacious of a rising chorus of warnings delivered in the 1990s as the Internet was exploding in popularity, well on its way to becoming a potent global force for... Hackers and other computer experts sounded alarms as the World Wide Web brought the transformative power of computer networking to the masses. Source: kdhnews.com
