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UK Ministry of Defense Broken by Spoof Video

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 17, 2005 @10:42PM from the oopsie-daisy dept.

An anonymous reader submits "It seems that the Royal Dragoon Guards in Iraq decided to make a spoof of a Tony Christie video, which was recently re-released by Peter Kay for Comic Relief. However, the video file was over 50MB and it took out various e-mail systems, including those at RAF Strike Command. Despite the inadvertant denial of service attack, the MoD said the spoof was 'brilliant.'"

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Re:Mail Servers by Jellybob · 2005-05-17 23:48 · Score: 3, Interesting

So... what your saying here is that when it happened, the MoD should have said.

"Shit, the mail servers are down. Quickly boys! Pack up and go home, we need the money being spent on our reason to exist to upgrade support equipment."