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Covad Faked DSL Trouble For Verizon?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the dos-at-a-corporate-level dept.

An anonymous reader sent us the strangest thing I've read in awhile. It's a Press Release on Verizon's website claiming that Covad employees were pressured into submitting thousands of fake bug reports, and costed the DSL Provider millions in tech support. 22,000 bug reports and sworn statements by covad employees, it effectively looks like a Denial of Service attack at a corporate level. I have to admit that I find this pretty funny.

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  1. DDoS by AnalogBoy · · Score: 5

    Now of course, they have to deal with the DDoS from the /. effect..

    Could the anonymous reader be another covad employee?

  2. Verizon is horrendous by ellem · · Score: 5

    Here on the East Coast Verizon is The Great Satan. Especially in Manhatan. It works like this:

    "Well fellas we got us 30 DSL hook ups scheduled for taday an' looks like 25 of'em is Covad. Whatta we say to DSL that ain't Verizon?"

    "Fuck 'em."

    "And why do we say that?"

    "Because we ain't got no stock in 'doz companies."

    "Right. Now lis'sen, it's 9 AM I want'cha ta do the 5 Verizon jobs and then meet us at the bar on 10th and 2nd by 11. Hey we're fucking union what're they gonna do; fire us?"

    This really happens, every day.
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  3. Furthermore by Psmylie · · Score: 5

    They convinced hundreds of Verizon's employees that they had Carpal Tunnel.

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  4. Our tech support people..... by canning · · Score: 5
    get that all the time.
    • My mouse just stopped working.
    • It was like that when I came in this morning.
    • The files just dissappeared.
    • I didn't touch a thing!

    Business as usual.


    Murphy's Law of Copiers

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