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Fortune: Peter Lewis reports from the front lines of the worm wars

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Sun Aug 24 14:29:08 2003 
Peter Lewis, a writer for Fortune.com (and I believe previously for
the New York Times) reviews his week in his Weblog.

The East Coast blackout, two disk crashes, a backhoe cuts his phone
lines, worm attacks on AOL Time Warner's corporate network, and then
the worm gets him (or rather his computer).

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/ontech/0,15918,477882,00.html
The Worm Turns - August 22 2003
>
> Did this week suck, or what?
>
> Perhaps as retribution for my smug comments on the radio last week that
> MY house, MY office and MY computer networks were unaffected by the Big
> Blackout of 2003, the technology banshees came visiting Monday morning.
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