Military asking to ISPs to shut down equipment?

Thu Sep 13 13:52:35 UTC 2001

I just sent eveything that I was forwarded, I don't know anymore nor have I 
heard this from my provider. I find this hard to believe and I just wanted 
to see if someone knew something that I didn't.

kevin pop account writes: 

> Should this request not be via the telcos pre-empting the circuits ? 
> 
> Also does the military not operate its own private network services
> both voice/data ? 
> 
> Regards,
> Kevin 
> 
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Seth M. Kusiak wrote: 
> 
>> 
>> Has anyone received a request like the one that was I forwarded below?
>>   
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>> We just received a call from our ISP that they were contacted by Quest 
>> Communications who is a major National ISP who in tern was contacted by the 
>> Military and were asked to shut down a lot of their equipment connecting 
>> clients to the Internet so that there would be more bandwidth. Other ISP 
>> supposedly received the same call.  
>> 
>> Get ready for a big outage....  
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