And if it is politics, maybe someone'll listen to this: Lucent Technologies
and CERT (as is right) are getting the limelight for this - wouldn't it be
great publicity if your company was the provider or one of the providers that
traced this down and caught the guy?
And some people who worked on host-resistance w/ Alexis until 5am 3 or 4 nights
(and supplied needed source and advice) aren't mentioned either in the PR 
-dalvenjah
Anyway, the later attacks didn't go on long enough to be traced w/ cooperation
from Sprintlink (who did come around and was enthusiastic about helping).
Avi