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I'd be surprised if it were true.. military people are paranoid on security. I know for instance the UK military entirely operate their own network which is 100% physically separate and at no points allow it to fall under civilian control. Steve On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Joe Shaw wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Seth M. Kusiak wrote: > > > [Stuff Deleted] > > > > We just received a call from our ISP that they were contacted by Quest > > Communications who is a major National ISP who in tern was contacted by the > > Military and were asked to shut down a lot of their equipment connecting > > clients to the Internet so that there would be more bandwidth. Other ISP > > supposedly received the same call. > > > > Get ready for a big outage.... > > > > [More Stuff Deleted] > > Well, back in 1999 I was courting Qwest for a new DS3, because they had > facilities in the building I was in. When I asked for a list of peers I > was told I would have to sign an NDA to find that out, to which I replied > I'd find out either way, it would only matter if I got the infor from them > or did the research myself. They then started telling me about this super > secret OC-192 network they were building for the government, but being > sales critters I took it very lightly. It's possible that Qwest could be > having problems that may be causing problems with that network, if it > exists, but I'm highly suspicious of e-mails saying that the Army wants > people to shut down. > > Regards, > -- > Joseph W. Shaw II > Network Security Specialist/CCNA > Unemployed. Will hack for food. God Bless. > Apparently I'm overqualified but undereducated to be employed. > > > -- Stephen J. Wilcox IP Services Manager, Opal Telecom http://www.opaltelecom.co.uk/ Tel: 0161 222 2000 Fax: 0161 222 2008
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