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RE: Verio taking twitter down during Iran Election Riots?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hiers, David)
Wed Jun 17 10:39:48 2009
From: "Hiers, David" <David_Hiers@adp.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:38:02 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20090616194536.30867d41@cs.columbia.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
This is a useful reminder that nanog creates a large part of the battlefi=
eld on which state and non-state players constantly prosecute their Infor=
mation Warfare agendas.
What will you do when you get a call from Khamenei, and then one from Oba=
ma?
Armor up, boys and girls.
David Hiers
CCIE (R/S, V), CISSP
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven M. Bellovin [mailto:smb@cs.columbia.edu]=20
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:46 PM
To: Jack Bates
Cc: Erik Fichtner; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Verio taking twitter down during Iran Election Riots?
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:48:07 -0500
Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net> wrote:
> Erik Fichtner wrote:
> >=20
> > And yet, all upgrades can be postponed with the right... motivation.
> >=20
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> Hmmm, you do know that motivation may have strictly been, "Your=20
> maintenance corresponds with a major event, can you put it off for a=20
> day?"
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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.
=09=09--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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