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Bird flu (was: Gartner spews more junk)
From: "Young, Keith" <Keith.Young () montgomerycountymd gov>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 14:28:06 -0400
Doesn't this say it all... http://events.interwise.com/?p=500646&t=1&s=2EVUSthe "bird-flu" is a myth, a story to tell citizens of the world that the "end is near".... Perpetrated by the media, in all countries... Although here in the States it's probably worse then others....
However, the U.S. Government (both Federal and state/local) is throwing money and time at this; see <http://www.avianflu.gov/> as one such example. In fact, instead of getting calls from vendors saying "Our product will help you solve your compliance needs", I am now getting "Our product will help you during a pandemic/avian flu outbreak" cold calls.
There was a lengthy discussion of this on NANOG a while ago - the most interesting point was "is the local DSL provider able to handle *everybody* telecommuting at once?"
Or, better yet, how will the DSL providers support their customers when their support/installation staff are quarantined at home? Would they ever come to my house with a new cable modem/router if I needed one? --Keith Keith Young, Security Official Department of Technology Services Montgomery County, Maryland phone - (240) 777-2955 _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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