[42066] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Military asking to ISPs to shut down equipment?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Shaw)
Thu Sep 13 10:59:03 2001
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:58:33 -0500 (CDT)
From: Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>
To: "Seth M. Kusiak" <seth.kusiak@yours4less.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.org>
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On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Seth M. Kusiak wrote:
> [Stuff Deleted]
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> We just received a call from our ISP that they were contacted by Quest
> Communications who is a major National ISP who in tern was contacted by the
> Military and were asked to shut down a lot of their equipment connecting
> clients to the Internet so that there would be more bandwidth. Other ISP
> supposedly received the same call.
>
> Get ready for a big outage....
>
> [More Stuff Deleted]
Well, back in 1999 I was courting Qwest for a new DS3, because they had
facilities in the building I was in. When I asked for a list of peers I
was told I would have to sign an NDA to find that out, to which I replied
I'd find out either way, it would only matter if I got the infor from them
or did the research myself. They then started telling me about this super
secret OC-192 network they were building for the government, but being
sales critters I took it very lightly. It's possible that Qwest could be
having problems that may be causing problems with that network, if it
exists, but I'm highly suspicious of e-mails saying that the Army wants
people to shut down.
Regards,
--
Joseph W. Shaw II
Network Security Specialist/CCNA
Unemployed. Will hack for food. God Bless.
Apparently I'm overqualified but undereducated to be employed.
