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Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.)
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:41:50 -0400
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:47:13 PDT, "andrew.wallace" said:
Guys the outage has moved to U.S and Canada, I think we need to look at this perhaps being sabotage.
It ain't sabotage till you rule out "misconfigured router". Consider the actual real-world threat models and their likelyhoods: 1) Insufficiently caffienated network engineer - this *NEVER* happens in real life, it's a total Bruce Schneier caliber movie-plot scenario. 2) Somebody sabotaging a RIM router. This is more likely, because there's just *bazillions* of people out there that stand to benefit from a RIM outage (and in fact profit more from an outage than from being able to watch traffic as it goes by). It's just a question of which one of those bazillions did it *this* time. Andrew, you *really* need to learn what the actual failure modes and root causes in real-life production networks are, and draw conclusions from reality, not whatever MI-7 inspired dream world the claim of "sabotage" came from.
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