[50132] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: If you thought Y2K was bad, wait until cyber-security hits
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (up@3.am)
Fri Jul 19 12:15:31 2002
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 12:14:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: <up@3.am>
To: "Larry J. Blunk" <ljb@merit.edu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20020719152147.D07185DDBF@segue.merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Larry J. Blunk wrote:
> Backup generators? That's far too mundane. Check out this quote from
> Howard Schmidt in http://www.supercomputingonline.com/article.php?sid=2269
>
> "The routing tables of the future will be unmanageable; there will
> slowdown and failures, and malicious and criminal activity between
> 2002 and 2009 all mean the Internet quits working," warned Schmidt.
> He even forecast a future in which "special aircraft will be flying
> the routing tables" physically to servers after periodic network brownouts.
Has Howard Schmidt offered to eat his words if his version of the
Internet Apocalypse doesn't happen by 2009?
James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
up@3.am http://3.am
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