ADN KRONOS and “Armed Phalanx”
One year ago, there had been a lot of clamor around the supposed computer attack to the ADN Kronos and which has been later found as devoid of any consistency.

It is worth of notice that, at that time, nobody cared enough to publicize also the inquirers”™conclusions in regard to that episode. Now we receive the news of the retrieval of “IceMc”, a 17-year student, as being the supposed author of a indetermined series of abusive accesses to isolated and badly protected points of telematic networks.
Big headlines, poor informative contents: that episode, as it has been presented today, is hard to believe.

This fact, which could have been an occasion for a serious discussion about freedom in Internet, has instead become once again the chance for the sensationalistic and superficial “vein” to show up again in almost all information media.

There are excellent and competent journalists, who can write objective and valid articles on the real problems of computers”™networks and electronic communication, that are instead confined to specialized press or within very small spaces.

What is missing, then, is not intelligence, but the will to use it to provide qualified information. This worries us more than computer networks could worry the readers”¦ With or without innocuous and pictoresque “hackers”.

ALCEI, the Association for Free Electronic & Interactive Communication, is once again forced to protest against this skewed and biased approach, which doesn”™t take into account the real problems and deviates the public”™s attention from the infinite cultural, social and economical opportunities that are developing around (and in) the Net.

As always, ALCEI is at the disposal of anyone wishing to get more information on this subject.