[138820] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Nanog] Re: US .mil blocking in Japan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold)
Thu Mar 17 21:58:31 2011
From: Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold <xenophage@godshell.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D811C08.1000000@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:57:28 -0400
To: William Warren <hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 16, 2011, at 4:22 PM, William Warren wrote:
> As a former Military Member I can tell you we don't have unlimited =
amounts of bandwidth...especially overseas. There's been several =
undersea cables damaged or completely knocked offline. I don't find =
this policy very surprising due to the disaster in Japan.
Could this also be part of a "communications blackout" ? No, not in a =
sinister, government keeping secrets, manner. A friend of mine serves =
on a ship that's over there right now. He dropped me a note last night =
that they were going into a communications blackout to try and control =
some of the wild miscommunication being sent out.
It seems reasonable enough if only to prevent widespread panic from =
someone "close" to the situation saying something incorrect.
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Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold
xenophage@godshell.com
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"Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology."
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