Blackout Worse For Internet Than Previously Thought?

Posted by simoniker on Monday November 24, 2003 @09:30AM from the tragic-leech-loss dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Renesys (the people who previously brought you cool animated graphs of the US/Canada power outage has a new report out. It challenges the widely held belief that the Internet was largely unaffected by the power outage. Lots of important networks lost connectivity, including banks, hospitals, government organizations and investment funds. There's a cool appendix on the huge Italian power outage in September as well. They conclude that the Internet is not ready to be critical infrastructure."

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all the more reasons to investigate newclear power by Anonymous Coward · 2003-11-24 09:43 · Score: -1, Offtopic

this stuff is unbreakable, & wwworks on several (more than 3) dimensions.

you call this weather?

it's not hurting the 'net. sometimes the power goes out. you didn't know that?
critical to me by Box+Checker · 2003-11-24 09:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic

"They conclude that the Internet is not ready to be critical infrastructure" that may be so, but... it's critical to my ever expanding collection of porn! viva la money shots!