[181904] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: United Airlines is Down (!) due to network connectivity problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Huff)
Thu Jul 9 03:19:01 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Matthew Huff <mhuff@ox.com>
To: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@mykolab.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 17:42:52 +0000
In-Reply-To: <559D5B77.7010402@mykolab.com>
Cc: nanog2 <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Given that the technical resources at the NYSE are significant and the leng=
thy duration of the outage, I believe this is more serious than is being re=
ported. OTOH, the fact that the market is now mostly decentralized and inst=
ruments are multiply listed, the impact of the NYSE is much less serious th=
an it used to be.
> On Jul 8, 2015, at 1:18 PM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@mykolab.com> wrot=
e:
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> Given that the Internet is held together with paper clips, bailing
> twine, and bubblegum, I'd prefer to take theses organizations' initial
> word for the fact that there is nothing obviously malicious in these
> outages.
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> The mainstream press, on the other hand, seems to want it to be a hack
> or data breach or... something other than a "glitch". :-)
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> - - ferg
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> On 7/8/2015 10:15 AM, Mel Beckman wrote:
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>> It's important to not form an opinion too early, especially anyone=20
>> involved with forensic analysis of these systems. This is a
>> classic fault in amateur investigation: an early opinion will lead
>> you into confirmation bias, irrationally accepting data agreeing
>> with your opinions and rejecting that disproving it.
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>> -mel beckman
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>>> On Jul 8, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Paul Ferguson=20
>>> <fergdawgster@mykolab.com> wrote:
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>> NYSE: "The issue we are experiencing is an internal technical issue
>> and is not the result of a cyber breach."
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>> https://twitter.com/NYSE/status/618818929906085888
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>> United Air statement CNBC: =93An issue with a router degraded network
>> connectivity for various applications. We fixed the router."
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>> https://twitter.com/barronstechblog/status/618816643821633536
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>> - ferg
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