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Better watch out, more reporting to come soon. I was just called by 3 seperate magazines for a quote about the NSI problems that we have been having. The scary part is, 2 of them got my number from my postings on usenet. I hope they aren't citing any Joe-Bob CNE they talk to as being an "Internet Engineer for a major ISP." Then we are all in big trouble. On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, J.D. Falk wrote: > On Jul 18, MFS <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Looks like this person has confused Eugene Kashpureff's stunts with > > the NSI debacle. > > > > It's things like this that threaten our (as well as the network's) reputation > > when read by the 'internet savvy' public. > > There was a good article in the San Jose Mercury News which > covered both events, but made it pretty clear that experts > such as some guy from the FBI didn't think there was any real > connection between them. Only important thing the article > missed, IMHO, is that there's already new software out which > wasn't as susceptible to Kashpureff's idiotic stunt. > > http://www.sjmercury.com/news/netglitch071797.htm > > (Where else but Silicon Valley would this be front-page news?) > > ********************************************************* > J.D. Falk voice: +1-415-482-2840 > Supervisor, Network Operations fax: +1-415-482-2844 > PRIORI NETWORKS, INC. http://www.priori.net > "The People You Know. The People You Trust." > ********************************************************* >
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