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Re: If you thought Y2K was bad, wait until cyber-security hits


From: <up () 3 am>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 12:14:51 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Larry J. Blunk wrote:

   Backup generators?  That's far too mundane.  Check out this quote from
Howard Schmidt in http://www.supercomputingonline.com/article.php?sid=2269

  "The routing tables of the future will be unmanageable; there will
  slowdown and failures, and malicious and criminal activity between
  2002 and 2009 all mean the Internet quits working," warned Schmidt.
  He even forecast a future in which "special aircraft will be flying
  the routing tables" physically to servers after periodic network brownouts.

Has Howard Schmidt offered to eat his words if his version of the
Internet Apocalypse doesn't happen by 2009?

James Smallacombe                     PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
up () 3 am                                                          http://3.am
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