2 Feb
2008
2 Feb
'08
12:51 a.m.
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
Yah. I'm a security guy, and hence suspicious by nature -- our slogan is "Paranoia is our Profession" -- and I'm getting very concerned. The old saying comes to mind: "once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, but the third time is enemy action". The alternative some common mode failure -- perhaps the storm others have noted.
It may just be the normal growing pains networks go through as they reach a certain size and those "minor" problems become "major" problems. When the Internet was sparser in the USA, we had similar "concindences." 1997: Backhoes in Concert http://www.nanog.org/nanog-tshirts/nanog11.jpg