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Re: Report: Major Newspaper Sites Hobbled by Power Woes

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Fri Jul 8 15:42:15 2005

Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 09:39:43 -0700
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: MARLON BORBA <mborba@trf3.gov.br>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <s2cbdc73.065@server-trf-web.trf3.gov.br>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


MARLON BORBA wrote:
> This leads us to the old fact that several ISPs and hosting providers protect their servers 
>with every network perimeter security resource (firewalls, IPSs, virus-and-spam-appliances etc) 
>but forget that "availability" as a security principle requires adequate physical and utility 
>safeguards

Yes, but Advance Internet isn't an ISP, it's a division of Newhouse 
Newspapers and exists primarily to service the Newhouse new media outlets. 
Cleveland.com, for example, is co-owned with the Cleveland _Plain Dealer_.

You'd think the company would be more careful about protecting a major 
extension to its core business.

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