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MAY 7, 2001

The former head of the cyber-crime unit of the FBI says attacks on the federal government are growing daily.

Michael A. Vatis recently left the National Infrastructure Protection Center and said attacks through e-mail or websites will grow because there is no way to protect computer systems from some of them.

The federal government and a number of US-based sites have been attacked in recent weeks by hackers the FBI considers Chinese.

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