[11025] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Outages in the News
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cameo Wood)
Fri Jul 18 14:49:08 1997
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 14:04:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Cameo Wood <cameo@metsys.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19970718095625.42560@priori.net>
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@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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