In message <20030129040240.GA4103@ussenterprise.ufp.org>, Leo Bicknell writes:
FWIW:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57550-2003Jan28.html
"About 13,000 Bank of America cash machines had to be shut down. The bank's ATMs sent encrypted information through the Internet, and when the data slowed to a crawl, it stymied transactions, according to a source, who said customer financial information was never in danger of being stolen."
OK. I -- and, I suspect, most other folks on this list -- have been predicting for years that the Internet would become *the* data network, good for all taks. Bank of America believed us. They learned that maybe we were a bit overoptimistic in our time frame.... --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me) http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)