[72873] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Convention networks and viruses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Thu Jul 29 10:07:43 2004
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 04:06:59 -1000 (HST)
From: Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0407290306300.27954@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Sean Donelan wrote:
: As NANOG has experienced during the last several meetings, in any network
: used by a large number of people, there will be a certain percentage of
: people which bring infected computers into the network.
:
: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/29/technology/circuits/29bost.html?pagewanted=3
: Wiring a Convention, Version 2004
: By SETH SCHIESEL
: Published: July 29, 2004
: [...]
: But data services have not been as solid. Many news organizations
: suffered intermittent breakdowns in Internet service, and on Tuesday
: evening the main press pavilion was offline for about 90 minutes. A
: spokesman for Verizon said the company deliberately caused the
: interruption as part of an effort to root out a more deep-seated
: network problem, which the company said appeared to have been caused by
: a virus carried by network devices provided by news organizations. In
: the interim, a handful of data lines provided by other companies,
: including AT&T, served as a backup.
A buncha technically clueless newsgeeks brought infected micro$loth
computers into a convention? Shocking! What's this world coming to???
Sounds like Verizon hired low-end netgeeks if they had to bring the
network down to find these infected computers.
tisk-tisk-tisk Verizon. MCSE != good netgeek In fact, almost all the
time, the two are mutually exclusive, disjoint sets of people...
:-)
scott