I've seen some amazing disasters, but I think your customer passed along
an urban legend.
38 people taken to a hospital, 8 cars destroyed, coverage by television
in five states; and I can't find any published reports in the newswire
databases. Unless my math is very wrong, I don't understand how a 300 amp
surge could damage that much stuff.
and I can't find any published reports in the newswire databases.
Perhaps someone should compile a list of how many hours NANOG readers
spend searching for news reports of this event.
Perhaps this was some sort of denial of service attack (get your
competitors to spend their time searching for non-existent news
reports).
Perhaps after we compute the dollar value of the damage that was done by
this bogus report, someone can call the Feds...
(Ok, Ok, so I spent a few minutes with AltaVista, too ...)
-tjs
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 02:57:06PM -0600, Tim Salo babbled:
> and I can't find any published reports in the newswire databases.
Perhaps someone should compile a list of how many hours NANOG readers
spend searching for news reports of this event.Perhaps this was some sort of denial of service attack (get your
competitors to spend their time searching for non-existent news
reports).Perhaps after we compute the dollar value of the damage that was done by
this bogus report, someone can call the Feds...
ok, dean...
-r
Well, I forwarded it to a few friends who really should know better, so
if you call the feds, don't forget I confessed early.
The news people would jump on a story like this sharks on chum. Look at
how much is made of a streetflood during a Y2K test. Actual damage/bodily
injury from computer failures would be the cause of a whole series of
articles on "how safe is your workplace?" and "how much does your IT
department REALLY know about Y2K?"
Stranger things have happened. I have seen a few emails about all optical
switchgear moving 100s of Gb/s around april 1st a few years back. Now I
get product literature from vendors selling it.
Deepak Jain
AiNET
Yes, but given much of the gear available I am thinking the
venders would be better off sending their brag sheets *on* April 1st.