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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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- If you thought Y2K was bad, wait until cyber-security hits Sean Donelan (Jul 18)
- Re: If you thought Y2K was bad, wait until cyber-security hits Larry J. Blunk (Jul 19)
- Re: If you thought Y2K was bad, wait until cyber-security hits Jake Khuon (Jul 19)
- Re: If you thought Y2K was bad, wait until cyber-security hits Martin Hepworth (Jul 19)
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- Re: If you thought Y2K was bad, wait until cyber-security hits Jake Khuon (Jul 19)
- Re: If you thought Y2K was bad, wait until cyber-security hits Jake Khuon (Jul 19)
- Re: If you thought Y2K was bad, wait until cyber-security hits Scott Francis (Jul 20)
- Re: If you thought Y2K was bad, wait until cyber-security hits Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 20)
- Re: If you thought Y2K was bad, wait until cyber-security hits Scott Francis (Jul 20)
- Re: If you thought Y2K was bad, wait until cyber-security hits Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 20)
- Re: If you thought Y2K was bad, wait until cyber-security hits Sean Donelan (Jul 21)
- Re: If you thought Y2K was bad, wait until cyber-security hits Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 20)
- Re: If you thought Y2K was bad, wait until cyber-security hits Larry J. Blunk (Jul 19)
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- Re: If you thought Y2K was bad, wait until cyber-security hits Mathew Lodge (Jul 18)
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