Re: Outages in the News

[Cameo Wood <cameo () metsys com>]

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?)
>
> *********************************************************
> J.D. Falk                         voice: +1-415-482-2840      
> Supervisor, Network Operations      fax: +1-415-482-2844
> PRIORI NETWORKS, INC.              http://www.priori.net
>      "The People You Know.  The People You Trust."
> *********************************************************