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Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection


From: Gerald <gcoon () inch com>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:56 -0400 (EDT)


I had really hoped Bill, or someone who knew Bill and this talk could give
more input on it. I found a vague summary of the whole talk:
http://www.tcsa.org/lisa2001/cnn.txt

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."

3. This type of situation doesn't lend itself well to typing in the news

To answer the comment I've got off list, I was looking for images at the
least of what was going on. These were not small (middle-of-nowhere)
cities. Text on IRC or Usenet were not giving me the visual I was looking
for, and pages like slashdot were vague to begin with.

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.

Can you name a few examples of the things they changed?


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