didn't seem interested."
Law enforcement officials also were pleased with Ashcroft's initiative. Chris Woiwode, supervisory special agent of the FBI's high-tech squad in Silicon Valley, said the pioneering CHIP unit represented a big improvement from the past, when prosecutors juggled a wide variety of cases.
Sgt. Lloyd Cardone, a San Jose police officer assigned to an interagency task force on high-tech crime, said law enforcement had been "behind the curve" in policing computer crimes. "Now," he said, "we're catching up to digital crime."
