See
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/24/network_outages/
for the gory details. The Sean Gorman debacle was just the beginning
this country is becoming more like the Soviet Union under Stalin every
passing day in its xenophobic paranoia all we need now is a new version of
the NKVD to enforce the homeland security directives.
Scott C. McGrath
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8966 is the original, for those of us
who have our doubts about the register as a news source
To summarize:
there are existing FCC requirements to report major voice outages
the FCC ran a proposal up the flag pole to extend this to data and
wireless networks
DHS did their job by analyzing the proposal and suggesting that it
might not be a good idea to make the additional data too public
Further: "If the FCC is going to mandate reporting, the DHS argued,
it should channel the data to a more circumspect group: the
Telecom ISAC (Information Sharing and Analysis Center), an
existing voluntary clearinghouse for communications-related
vulnerability information, whose members include several
government agencies and all the major communications carriers.
Data exchanged within the Telecom-ISAC is protected from public
disclosure. "
Presumably the FCC will take this opinion into consideration and weigh it
alongside clear-headed debates as:
this country is becoming more like the Soviet Union under Stalin every
passing day in its xenophobic paranoia all we need now is a new version
of the NKVD to enforce the homeland security directives.
At least the paranoia is right