Re: Stupidity: A Real Cyberthreat.

2006-01-19 Thread Alexander Harrowell
First of all: the IRA carried out very successful "systems attacks" on the City of London, and also on major transport systems - motorway viaducts, railway stations and signalling centers, airport terminals - both in kinetic (real, actual bombs) and nonkinetic (hoax calls) modes. All of these were

Re: GoDaddy.com shuts down entire data center?

2006-01-16 Thread Alexander Harrowell
I'm astonished GoDaddy pulled anyone for spamming. Isn't spamming the whole point of GoDaddy, what with its content-free WHOIS records, integrated no-name domain registry and hosting division? In fact, I would go so far as to say taking out entire GoDaddy would probably be a small increase in the

Re: WMF patch

2006-01-05 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Indeed. It's the security equivalent of "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" - perhaps we could reformulate that as "the users can remain clueless longer than your business can survive the DDOS"On 1/5/06, Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jan 04, 20

Re: live chat with other nanog'ers

2005-12-30 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Cracking analogy, Valdis. I'll use that..now can we put this frankly soporific thread down like an unwanted kitten?On 12/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 21:56:43 PST, "william(at)elan.net" said:> No matter what the question was, how experienced they are or w

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-15 Thread Alexander Harrowell
venue.";-)Cheers,- ferg-- Alexander Harrowell < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:The whole QoS/2 tier Internet thing I find deeply, deeplysuspicious...here in the mobile space, everyone is gettingobsessed by IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) and explaining to each other that they need it so they can

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-15 Thread Alexander Harrowell
The whole QoS/2 tier Internet thing I find deeply, deeply suspicious...here in the mobile space, everyone is getting obsessed by IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) and explaining to each other that they need it so they can offer "Better QoS, like the subscribers want". What they really mean, I suspect,

Re: IPv6 transition to cost U.S. Government $75B

2005-12-15 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Remember Senator Bentsen: A billion here, a billion there...and soon you're talking REAL money!On 12/15/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3570211Quote: There is an unreleased report by the Dept. of Commerce   estimating it will tak

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