Convention networks and viruses

Thu Jul 29 14:11:51 UTC 2004

Scott Weeks wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Sean Donelan wrote:
> 
> : As NANOG has experienced during the last several meetings, in any network
> : used by a large number of people, there will be a certain percentage of
> : people which bring infected computers into the network.
> :
> : http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/29/technology/circuits/29bost.html?pagewanted=3
> : Wiring a Convention, Version 2004
> : By SETH SCHIESEL
> : Published: July 29, 2004
> : [...]
> :   But data services have not been as solid. Many news organizations
> :   suffered intermittent breakdowns in Internet service, and on Tuesday
> :   evening the main press pavilion was offline for about 90 minutes. A
> :   spokesman for Verizon said the company deliberately caused the
> :   interruption as part of an effort to root out a more deep-seated
> :   network problem, which the company said appeared to have been caused by
> :   a virus carried by network devices provided by news organizations. In
> :   the interim, a handful of data lines provided by other companies,
> :   including AT&T, served as a backup.
> 
> 
> 
> A buncha technically clueless newsgeeks brought infected micro$loth
> computers into a convention?  Shocking!  What's this world coming to???
> Sounds like Verizon hired low-end netgeeks if they had to bring the
> network down to find these infected computers.

I must have dozed off.  What did Verizon have to do with the NANOG
meeting?

> tisk-tisk-tisk Verizon.   MCSE != good netgeek   In fact, almost all the
> time, the two are mutually exclusive, disjoint sets of people...

And sometimes "orthogonal" comes to mind.

And sometimes "congruent" does.
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