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[FYI] German Pol Backtracks on Hack



http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,42961,00.html

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German Pol Backtracks on Hack 
by Steve Kettmann 

11:30 a.m. Apr. 10, 2001 PDT 

BERLIN -- Germany Interior Minister Otto Schily has taken at least a 
half-step back from a threat to use denial-of-service attacks to shut 
down neo-Nazi websites in the United States and elsewhere.  

The statement Tuesday by Schily's spokesman was expected, given the 
furor in Germany and elsewhere over the idea of a government 
potentially getting into the hacking business.  

"It's wrong to talk about hacking," Schily spokesman Dirk Inger said, 
suggesting that media accounts had misinterpreted Schily's previous 
remarks.  

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