CHICAGO (UPI) -- From the New York City blackout, to Hurricane Isabel, to coordinated hacker attacks, the World Wide Web endured an array of extreme challenges during the last year. Still, the Internet, conceived in the late 1960s by the Pentagon as a communications link for key government policy players in the event of nuclear war, remains vulnerable to attack by cyber-terrorists and cannot be considered completely reliable by users for e-business or e-mail.
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