The Clinton Administration, too, is very worried about cyber-warfare, but inexplicably not at all worried about the People's Liberation Army.

The Pentagon is worried. If an attack were carried out, even just a test attack, it's likely that it would go undetected and might well be attributed to equipment failure or some natural event, US Joint Task Force on Computer Network Defence Director General John Campbell pointed out.

Good plan for China. Not so good for us.

China conducting 'pre-war recon' on line: "'China has the biggest [information warfare] programme from the standpoint of being able to attack our infrastructure,' Chinese military specialist William Triplett said during an interview on the CBS News programme 60 Minutes this weekend."

Does Britain have something like the ACLU?

British ISPs should just shut down in protest... sooner or later they will be shut down anyhow by one lawsuit or another. With the libel case showing that ISPs are responsible for everything on their servers, who can afford to host sites anymore?

Of course, you can't check it out for yourself because the site is gone.

"Hutty, who wrote the story, said: 'What I've written is not an actionable libel. If he wants to sue it's up to him,' he said. 'We stand behind our comments, but the ISP is naturally neither willing nor able to get involved. The result is that we are presumed guilty, and censored, because our ISP does not want to pay the legal fees to defend us.'"

More Godfrey Fun: Anti-censorship site censored. "The director of the Campaign Against Censorship of the Internet in Britain has challenged Dr Laurence Godfrey to sue him following claims by CACIB that it was gagged over the publication of a story on its Web site."

Software may have proven that it can survive without direct payments, but can art? I don't know.