Outages in the News
Alex Rubenstein
alex at nac.net
Fri Jul 18 20:35:53 UTC 1997
TKR Cables Channel 20 was in our office today. Scary; we will be on TeeVee.
At 02:04 PM 7/18/97 -0400, Cameo Wood wrote:
>Better watch out, more reporting to come soon. I was just called by 3
>seperate magazines for a quote about the NSI problems that we have been
>having. The scary part is, 2 of them got my number from my postings on
>usenet. I hope they aren't citing any Joe-Bob CNE they talk to as being
>an "Internet Engineer for a major ISP." Then we are all in big trouble.
>
>On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, J.D. Falk wrote:
>
>> On Jul 18, MFS <michael at dook.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Looks like this person has confused Eugene Kashpureff's stunts with
>> > the NSI debacle.
>> >
>> > It's things like this that threaten our (as well as the network's)
reputation
>> > when read by the 'internet savvy' public.
>>
>> There was a good article in the San Jose Mercury News which
>> covered both events, but made it pretty clear that experts
>> such as some guy from the FBI didn't think there was any real
>> connection between them. Only important thing the article
>> missed, IMHO, is that there's already new software out which
>> wasn't as susceptible to Kashpureff's idiotic stunt.
>>
>> http://www.sjmercury.com/news/netglitch071797.htm
>>
>> (Where else but Silicon Valley would this be front-page news?)
>>
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