First Echelon Source

[Chris Coward]

 > The thing that amazes me most, however, is how the Americans seem
> to take everything at face value. Ref: The recent news story about
> a kid claiming on IRC he'd done the recent DDOS attacks, and  FBI
> raiding his house because of it. They don't use any reason or proper 
> judgement whatsoever before jumping to the gun and shooting people.

I'm afraid it's not just our american cousins who take things
at face value - it only takes a miscreant to claim that "the internent
made me do it" for shock-horror stories to appear in the press
(including the so called qualities). Reminds me rather of the moral
panic about video nasties in the '80s. It's some comfort that, unlike the
FBI, Observer journalists aren't armed!

Chris