NATO's own computer system and Web site were brought down by Serb hacker attacks recently. This, in turn, ignited the passions of American hackers, who proceeded to bring down several Web sites in Yugoslavia. Thus was the virtual battle truly enjoined. But the truth is that my fellow media colleagues had better get used to receiving these spam assaults because this is just the tip of the iceberg. The first time this happened to us at the Electronic Edition of the Monitor was when we received more than 2,000 identical messages from hundreds of Turks demanding that Italy turn Kurdish PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan over to the Turkish authorities.
Western media are a tempting target.
Tom Regan is the associate editor of The Christian Science Monitor's Electronic Edition. Before bookmarking this page in your browser, click here . The Christian Science Publishing Society. All rights reserved.