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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."
It's a shock... I mean, the fact that the quality's bad. Really, a company that spends a great deal of money on advertising producing a poor product?
phone stays up, you go down.
You know it's probably not got anything to do with viruses or worms.
It's more likely human error.
You know this is why everyone down the chain needs to start taking responsability.
Is Microsoft responsable? Yes (not legally I know)
But so is the Syadmin and the utility that hired him.
Quite frankly the utility should also be held responsable for agreeing to hold Microsoft blameless with out anyway of fixing it themselfs.
(I had to add the qualifier becouse with Linux you CAN fix it... With Windows your stuck at Microsofts whims)
But you know Microsoft should be held blameless for the worms now becouse Microsoft has offered patches.
Also they could just blame viruses and worms when what really happend is they did something really stupid and won't admit it.
Baby bell employees ripping digital network hardware out becouse the trainning they have is obsolte and similare stunts...
ISPs were suing baby bells for refusing to bring in more phone lines or knocking lines out after install or ripping out T1-OCR3 hardware...
Now we have power companys who could be hit and a celulare company who is at the very least using it as an excuse for a major outage.
I'm gona start asking cell companys if they run Windows before I sign up. I don't care if they do have a good anti-virus/worm/security policy and armor systems 100% there is still the opratunity to blame human error on malware and not take responsability for major outages.
I don't actually exist.
So me and Timothy have something in common.
Adam, you turd burglar when are you going to let me teabag you again, huh?
Patching windows won't do squat other than make you feel better for about a week. Then the next 3 holes are announced, and you are vulnerable. This is why I say Windows is insecurable, the best you can hope for is a very temporary safety window (no pun intended).
Do the patches work? Yes. Can you keep up? Nope. Should you stay on this train? Nope.
If you want to keep your systems secure, get rid of windows, nothing else will do. Before you mod me up for advocating Linux, I am not necessarily advocating it here. In fact, I would say go with a BSD probably NetBSD. If you need to go commercial, there are other choices, none as good though.
The point is, what is better? Everything. Sit where you are, advocating patches, and get screwed next time, you will. Even with a perfect record on patching as soon as they come out, there are exploits that are released before patches every so often. You need to be elsewhere to be safe.
For the MSCEs out there, here it is in simple terms. Imagine a giant hamster wheel. Imagine you are a hamster. Get off the #^&#%$# wheel!
-Charlie