How an unfixed Net glitch could strand you offline
Sunday, May 9, 2010 - 08:11
in Psychology & Sociology
(AP) -- In 1998, a hacker told Congress that he could bring down the Internet in 30 minutes by exploiting a certain flaw that sometimes caused online outages by misdirecting data. In 2003, the Bush administration concluded that fixing this flaw was in the nation's "vital interest."