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Saturday, February 01, 2003
White House cyber-security chief resigns - ASSOCIATED PRESS
Richard A. Clarke, President Bush’s top cyber-security adviser, has resigned from his post and issued an ominous warning to colleagues about the destructive effects of future attacks on the Internet. White House cyber-security adviser Richard A. Clarke, in an e-mail sent overnight Thursday to colleagues, cited damage from the weekend’s infection that struck hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide, slowing e-mail and Web surfing and even shutting down some banking systems. He called the attacking software “a dumb worm that was easily and cheaply made.”
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