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sandbox.bitgravity.com - 4/10/2009

Destroy the Internet with a hacksaw?

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This morning many people in Silicon Valley woke up without 911 service, Internet, cellular phones, and in some cases TV. Web sites were impacted and Internet traffic between a few major datacenters stopped flowing. Several of our employees were cut off from the Internet and phone ...

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Our fancy Internet infrastructure operates on a wire and a prayer
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