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Major Problems with Cingular Network
Wabin writes "It looks like the Cingular GSM network is having serious trouble. My phone stopped working today completely, though my wife's was still able to make outgoing calls. Talking to tech support, they claimed some kind of massive failure across the country starting around 4PM yesterday and possibly a virus attack. Howard Forums is all abuzz, but there really doesn't seem to be any hard info. Glad I haven't totally given up the land line yet... redundancy is good."
Sorry it's offtopic, but... This is EXACTLY why firewalls are virtually useless on corporate networks. I have gotten in so many arguments with so-called "security experts" that are convinced they don't need to bother with keeping internal machines up to date, because the magic of the firewall will protect them. Instead, they don't do much more than foul up legitimate traffic and lead management into a false sense of security.