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CNN.com - Electronic attack slows Internet - Jan. 25, 2003
by Lost at 2:01 pm EST, Jan 25, 2003

] A fast-moving computer worm slowed down Internet access
] Saturday for about 22,000 servers, according to the
] Internet security firm Symantec.

'"Maybe it's a worker, maybe it's a kid who's bothered by something another kid said," Paller said. "We have no reason to believe that there are any terrorism groups gathering these machines ... but we now know that they can."'

Hadda get in that terrorist connection, didn't they...

RE: CNN.com - Electronic attack slows Internet - Jan. 25, 2003
by Decius at 2:04 pm EST, Jan 25, 2003

Jello wrote:

] Hadda get in that terrorist connection, didn't they...

Whats interesting is that the government of South Korea issued a warning 24 hours before this happened...

CNN.com - Electronic attack slows Internet - Jan. 25, 2003
by jessica at 9:23 am EST, Jan 25, 2003

] A fast-moving computer worm slowed down Internet access
] Saturday for about 22,000 servers, according to the
] Internet security firm Symantec.

i was wondering what the hell happened when i first got to work this morning.

CNN.com - Electronic attack slows Internet - Jan. 25, 2003
by Decius at 12:13 pm EST, Jan 25, 2003

] A fast-moving computer worm slowed down Internet access
] Saturday for about 22,000 servers, according to the
] Internet security firm Symantec.

The network that MemeStreams is on dropped off the net last night. I imagine that someone on it must have gotten this worm. Apparently outages were widespread.