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Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Wed Oct 12 23:39:04 2011
In-Reply-To: <20111012224049.GE30621@macbook.bluepipe.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:37:32 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@nsrc.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Phil Regnauld <regnauld@nsrc.org> wrote:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Correct - they need to transit at some point through the R=
IM servers.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://www.interworks.com/blogs/wlyles/2010/01/14/why-rim-=
outage-affects-users-corporate-bes
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0That's just wrong on so many levels.
yet... people AND CORPORATIONS still use them... Hrm, one wonders how
plain-text-like the traffic is between endpoints? how much data is
there that could be used to identify the endpoints? "Look, jabley's
sure sending lots of traffic to capitan knight... maybe there's
something going on in jabley-land?"
just sayin'!
