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Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection

  • From: Gerald
  • Date: Mon Sep 16 13:04:48 2002

> On 12:34 AM 9/16/02, Kurtis Lindqvist wrote:
>
>  >Just like the net was one of the prime sources of information
>  >during 9-11.

The internet sucked as a means of getting information on 9/11. I spent
about 20 minutes hitting every news site I could think of, and they had
all tanked. I set an away msg on IM:
"Internet news sucks, I'm going to watch CNN."

I made it to the support center when the first tower fell. It took that
long for someone to come tell me that all this stuff was going on, for me
to give up on the internet and actually make it to a useful news source.

When I finally did go back to my desk to work we turned on a radio that
all of us could hear from our cube farm and tried to resume normal
operations while keeping up to date.

>From a network operations perspective, anyone who has not heard William
LeFebvre's "CNN.com: Facing a World Crisis" has missed out. It talks about
how the company that hosts cnn.com handled the crises and how it affected
them from a network perspective. I've been unable to locate any decent
transcripts/recordings of this talk, but I heard it at LISA 2001.
Absolutely amazing presentation if you haven't seen it or heard it.

William said they changed a lot of the way they do things at the company
that hosts CNN.com since 9/11. I don't believe they were the only ones.

Gerald