Re: Outages in the News

[Alex Rubenstein <alex () nac net>]

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 <michael () dook org> 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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