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Fortune: Peter Lewis reports from the front lines of the worm wars
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Aug 24 14:27:41 2003
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 14:27:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Peter Lewis, a writer for Fortune.com (and I believe previously for
the New York Times) reviews his week in his Weblog.
The East Coast blackout, two disk crashes, a backhoe cuts his phone
lines, worm attacks on AOL Time Warner's corporate network, and then
the worm gets him (or rather his computer).
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/ontech/0,15918,477882,00.html
The Worm Turns - August 22 2003
>
> Did this week suck, or what?
>
> Perhaps as retribution for my smug comments on the radio last week that
> MY house, MY office and MY computer networks were unaffected by the Big
> Blackout of 2003, the technology banshees came visiting Monday morning.
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