Vulnerbilities of Interconnection

Mon Sep 16 16:46:07 UTC 2002

Well, they probably didn't have multicast enabled, and so couldn't
get one of the many news feeds set up that day :)

Regards
Marshall Eubanks

JC Dill wrote:

> 
> On 12:34 AM 9/16/02, Kurtis Lindqvist wrote:
> 
>  >Just like the net was one of the prime sources of information
>  >during 9-11.
> 
> On the morning of 9/11 I was alone in a colo in Reston VA (3000 miles 
> from home), and I found it very difficult to get information (other than 
> the most basic facts, planes hitting WTC and Pentagon, crashing in PA, 
> airplanes grounded, WTC towers collapsing) on that day.  Web servers 
> were overloaded, downloads repeatedly stalled.  The big thing the 'net 
> helped with most was sending information (via email and IM) to my 
> friends and family back home in CA, letting them know that I was OK, and 
> to receive information (via email and IM) from those watching TV and 
> learn second hand what they had learned from TV.  My cell phone only 
> worked intermittently, due to heavy network congestion on the cell 
> network surrounding DC.  When I finally got done at the colo and went 
> back to my friend's house in Vienna later that afternoon, *that* is when 
> I was finally able to learn details about what had happened during the 
> day and see video of the WTC etc. - via TV footage.
> 
> When I got back to the office, I learned that the big screen TV that had 
> previously been located in the exercise room had been moved to the 
> center of the office so that everyone could more easily see it, and 
> everyone could hear it.  Meanwhile, they all had high speed Internet 
> connections to the computers sitting on their desks.  Why bring in the 
> TV if the 'net was "one of the prime sources of information"?
> 
> jc
> 

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