[117119] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Issues with Gmail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (AMuse)
Tue Sep 1 16:58:45 2009
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:56:50 -0700
From: AMuse <nanog-amuse@foofus.com>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A9D84F9.6000702@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
As a government-employed computer security guy who has never owned or
worn a suit OR tie, I feel entitled to ask... WTF?
Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 01/09/2009 21:01, Jim Wininger wrote:
>> Anyone else seeing issues with gmail?
>
> Down, definitely down. Call the White House!
>
> It should be clear that the root cause here is a lack of regulation,
> so could someone phone Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) _urgently_ and
> advise him that the only way to stop problems like this happening in
> future is to ensure that the government has a firm grip of the
> steering wheel at all these web2.0 companies. Also, rather than
> letting these trendy, fashionable Googlers attempt to fix critical
> systems like gmail, that real service problems like this ought to be
> fixed by accredited cyber security professionals, preferably ones
> which can demonstrate their computing ability by wearing a suit and tie.
>
> If we've learned anything in the telecommunications world, it's that
> if any organisation can respond quickly to a problem and deal with it
> efficiently and effectively, it's a Government.
>
> Nick
