[72874] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Convention networks and viruses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Thu Jul 29 10:12:33 2004
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 09:11:51 -0500
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040729035444.H86242-100000@www.mauigateway.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Scott Weeks wrote:
> 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.
I must have dozed off. What did Verizon have to do with the NANOG
meeting?
> tisk-tisk-tisk Verizon. MCSE != good netgeek In fact, almost all the
> time, the two are mutually exclusive, disjoint sets of people...
And sometimes "orthogonal" comes to mind.
And sometimes "congruent" does.
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