[102228] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Feb 1 20:05:14 2008
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 19:51:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20080201223717.399fe68a@cs.columbia.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> Yah. I'm a security guy, and hence suspicious by nature -- our slogan
> is "Paranoia is our Profession" -- and I'm getting very concerned. The
> old saying comes to mind: "once is happenstance, twice is coincidence,
> but the third time is enemy action". The alternative some common mode
> failure -- perhaps the storm others have noted.
It may just be the normal growing pains networks go through as they reach
a certain size and those "minor" problems become "major" problems. When
the Internet was sparser in the USA, we had similar "concindences."
1997: Backhoes in Concert
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