Computer Hackers: Give U.S.?a Y2K Break

By Jack December 14, 1999 12:10 PM

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President Clinton's top aide on Y2K matters has urged computer hackers to exercise self-restraint until after year 2000 technology fears largely have passed.?In an unusual plea for mercy, John Koskinen, chairman of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion, said that some people regard piercing computer network security to be a "great public service" because it calls attention to security cracks.?"Hopefully those people will recognize we're going to have enough things going on that (New Year's) weekend that this will not be a particularly good weekend to demonstrate the need for more information security," he said on Monday.?"If you want to, in fact, make those points, my hope is (you'll) make them the following weekend," when Y2K confusion is expected to have subsided, Koskinen said in reply to a reporter's question.?Read More...

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