[181922] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: United Airlines is Down (!) due to network connectivity problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu Jul 9 03:44:00 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <559D5B77.7010402@mykolab.com>
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 14:56:27 -0400
To: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@mykolab.com>,Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
UA, WSJ /and/ NYSE all in the same day?
Once is an accident; twice is a coincidence...
Three times is enemy action.
On July 8, 2015 1:18:47 PM EDT, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@mykolab.com> wrote:
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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
>> 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.
>>
>> -mel beckman
>>
>>> On Jul 8, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Paul Ferguson
>>> <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."
>>
>> https://twitter.com/NYSE/status/618818929906085888
>>
>> United Air statement CNBC: “An issue with a router degraded network
>> connectivity for various applications. We fixed the router."
>>
>> https://twitter.com/barronstechblog/status/618816643821633536
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>> - ferg
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>Paul Ferguson
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