[115294] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verio taking twitter down during Iran Election Riots?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Tue Jun 16 19:45:54 2009
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:45:36 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
In-Reply-To: <4A37B0A7.6020709@brightok.net>
Cc: Erik Fichtner <emf1123@gmail.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:48:07 -0500
Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net> wrote:
> Erik Fichtner wrote:
> >
> > And yet, all upgrades can be postponed with the right... motivation.
> >
>
>
> Hmmm, you do know that motivation may have strictly been, "Your
> maintenance corresponds with a major event, can you put it off for a
> day?"
>
According to
http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/k32Wx4r_vew/twitter-from-statedept-delay-upgrade-to-aid-iran-protests.ars
the delay was requested by the U.S. State Department.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
