| | The Moonlight Maze of secret cyberwar gossip. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | That is -- Moonlight Maze stories are recognizable by their almost complete reliance upon gossip and speculation; their complete lack of definition in the who, what and where categories; and a stupefying preponderance of anonymous sources from the Pentagon, intelligence agencies, and/or the private computer security industry speculating or expostulating for journalists. |
 | | It was clear that Moonlight Maze was going to enjoy a second lifetime in the news and, indeed, a media cascade resulted in the second week of October, mostly built upon a wave of copycat reporting and inconclusive statements about the affair made in a Congressional hearing that week. |
 | | One of the anonymous sources peddling the story of Moonlight Maze through the summer, "who works for a major Internet domain registration firm, said he found copies of DOD duty rosters, network maps and photographs of DOD facilities residing on servers belonging to [the alleged attackers]," wrote FCW. |
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