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Re: Outages in the News

  • From: Alex Rubenstein
  • Date: Fri Jul 18 16:46:32 1997

TKR Cables Channel 20 was in our office today. Scary; we will be on TeeVee.


At 02:04 PM 7/18/97 -0400, Cameo Wood wrote:
>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?)
>> 
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