United Airlines is Down (!) due to network connectivity problems

Wed Jul 8 17:18:47 UTC 2015

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Given that the Internet is held together with paper clips, bailing
twine, and bubblegum, I'd prefer to take theses organizations' initial
word for the fact that there is nothing obviously malicious in these
outages.

The mainstream press, on the other hand, seems to want it to be a hack
or data breach or... something other than a "glitch". :-)

- - ferg

On 7/8/2015 10:15 AM, Mel Beckman wrote:

> It's important to not form an opinion too early, especially anyone 
> involved with forensic analysis of these systems. This is a
> classic fault in amateur investigation: an early opinion will lead
> you into confirmation bias, irrationally accepting data agreeing
> with your opinions and rejecting that disproving it.
> 
> -mel beckman
> 
>> On Jul 8, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Paul Ferguson 
>> <fergdawgster at mykolab.com> wrote:
>> 
> NYSE: "The issue we are experiencing is an internal technical issue
> and is not the result of a cyber breach."
> 
> https://twitter.com/NYSE/status/618818929906085888
> 
> United Air statement CNBC: “An issue with a router degraded network
> connectivity for various applications. We fixed the router."
> 
> https://twitter.com/barronstechblog/status/618816643821633536
> 
> - ferg
> 

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