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Preparing for the Worst in IT

Posted by Zonk on from the in-a-post-blah-blah-blah dept.

mplex writes "How vulnerable is the internet to terrorist attack? Is it robust enough to handle an outage on a massive scale? Should the commercial infrastructure that powers the internet be kept secret? These are the sorts of questions raised by Mark Gibbs in his latest column in Network World. 'There is an alternate route available for nearly all services through Las Vegas or Northern California serving all facilities-based carriers in Los Angeles -- all interconnected at numerous L.A. and L.A.-area fiber-optic terminals supporting both metro and long-distance cable.' Given that the internet thrives on open networks, it's hard to imagine keeping them a secret. At best, we must be prepared to deal with the worst."

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  1. Dear Zonk by Eil · · Score: 1, Offtopic


    Dear Zonk, your posts to Slashdot are uninformative, full of errors, and not relevant to anyone's interests. Please go away.

    Also, anyone who agrees with me, please tag this article "zonkism".

    1. Re:Dear Zonk by metlin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      And oh, as a subscriber, notifying editors about mistakes in the post usually works - but for whatever reason, our beloved editor Zonk seems not to do anything about it.

    2. Re:Dear Zonk by asninn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Hear, hear!

      My current /. account is not old enough to tag things yet, but I've got to say that anyone who can't even preview his posts and catch obvious HTML errors like this is simply unsuitable for a site that has millions of users and should be FIRED.

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    3. Re:Dear Zonk by El+Torico · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Actually, it's spelled "Zaunq"; he just Americanized it. I've discovered that he's actually part of a nefarious plot to drive everyone on slashdot insane with inane and error-filled articles.

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  2. Re: Bitter Irony by Migraineman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anybody else see the irony of a malformed HTML link href="http://www.foo.com/links/malformed.html"> in an article about the "worst in IT ?" Almost made my head implode.

  3. I like his video game articles by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    To be fair, I like his video game articles, generally, although I sometimes disagree with his ratings.

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