[138821] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Nanog] Re: US .mil blocking in Japan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael DeMan)
Fri Mar 18 00:34:33 2011
From: Michael DeMan <nanog@deman.com>
In-Reply-To: <74ED5184-E383-4A83-B588-23606263D0AA@godshell.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:33:14 -0700
To: Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold <xenophage@godshell.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Wasn't this announced on the news already?
That because the infrastructure in Japan was hit (no highly publicized) =
but still working, that the US military also said they were blocking =
u-tube and other high bandwidth sites in order to conserve resources?
I am definitely not one to be outside of hearing about a conspiracy =
theory or something, but I know up in our neck of the woods in the =
NorthWest of NorthWest Washington State, that this is just common sense =
to do.
On Mar 17, 2011, at 6:57 PM, Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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."
> - Niven's Inverse of Clarke's Third Law
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