FC: Infoworld.com reports on the mysterious, vanishing AONN.gov

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

AONN.gov mirror:
http://www.mccullagh.org/misc/aonn/

And here's my article, which appeared two days earlier:
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-983384.html

This is apparently AONN.gov's new home:
http://www.dsispecialaccess.net/

-Declan

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http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/07/HNmysterysite_1.html

   The case of the mysterious .gov site
   No one knows where it came from

   By Grant Gross
   February 07, 2003

   WASHINGTON -- A U.S. Department of Defense spokesman has never heard
   of the group that operated AONN.gov, and the U.S. General Services
   Administration has pulled the site's .gov domain because of questions
   about the organization's connection to the U.S. government.

   Still, Robert L. Taylor III, chief information officer of Access One
   Network Northwest, continues to claim he operates a "clandestine"
   cybersecurity and intelligence agency supported by the Deparment of
   Defense (DOD), according to an e-mail statement attributed to Taylor
   sent in response to IDG News Service questions. The e-mail was sent by
   someone purporting to be the webmaster at AONN.gov's companion site,
   dsispecialaccess.net.

   In a plot worthy of "The X-Files," the General Services Administration
   (GSA), which assigns .gov domains, yanked the AONN.gov domain in late
   January, but declined to comment on how Taylor's group received the
   URL (uniform resource locator) in the first place. The GSA issued a
   statement Thursday: "There is question about the authenticity of the
   web site that included the AONN name. Until the situation is resolved,
   we have eliminated the URL from the dot gov directory name server."

   [...]




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