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Re: Military asking to ISPs to shut down equipment?
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () opaltelecom co uk>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:10:52 +0100 (BST)
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
Current thread:
- Re: Totally OT, sorry; was (Re: Lack of Security), (continued)
- Re: Totally OT, sorry; was (Re: Lack of Security) Christian Kuhtz (Sep 13)
- Military asking to ISPs to shut down equipment? Seth M. Kusiak (Sep 13)
- Re: Military asking to ISPs to shut down equipment? kevin pop account (Sep 13)
- Re: Military asking to ISPs to shut down equipment? Seth M. Kusiak (Sep 13)
- Re: Military asking to ISPs to shut down equipment? kevin pop account (Sep 13)
- Re: Military asking to ISPs to shut down equipment? Leo Bicknell (Sep 13)
- RE: Military asking to ISPs to shut down equipment? Daniel Golding (Sep 13)
- Re: Military asking to ISPs to shut down equipment? Randy Bush (Sep 13)
- Re: Military asking to ISPs to shut down equipment? Jim Shankland (Sep 13)
- Re: Military asking to ISPs to shut down equipment? Joe Shaw (Sep 13)
- Re: Military asking to ISPs to shut down equipment? Stephen J. Wilcox (Sep 13)
- Re: Totally OT, sorry; was (Re: Lack of Security) Christian Kuhtz (Sep 13)
- RE: Totally OT, sorry; was (Re: Lack of Security) Mathias Körber (Sep 13)
- Re: Totally OT, sorry; was (Re: Lack of Security) John Fraizer (Sep 13)
- Re: Totally OT, sorry; was (Re: Lack of Security) EA Louie (Sep 13)
- Re: Totally OT, sorry; was (Re: Lack of Security) polarcat (Sep 13)
- Re: Totally OT, sorry; was (Re: Lack of Security) John Fraizer (Sep 13)
- Re: Totally OT, sorry; was (Re: Lack of Security) John Fraizer (Sep 13)
- Re: Totally OT, sorry; was (Re: Lack of Security) EA Louie (Sep 13)
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- Re: Totally OT, sorry; was (Re: Lack of Security) Dave Stewart (Sep 13)
- Re: Totally OT, sorry; was (Re: Lack of Security) bmanning (Sep 13)