Re: [ISN] AT&T Data Networks Down (hacker?)

[Moderator: By default, with AT&T and incidents like this I full agree.
 The people citing this as a hacker attack mentioned the 1990 switch crash
 (due to faulty upgrade software) and realize the details behind that
 story.]

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From: "Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson@techreports.jpl.nasa.gov>
To: jericho@dimensional.com
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 14:47:26 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [ISN] AT&T Data Networks Down (hacker?)

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>        TECH. 5:01 am
>            AT&T DATA NETWORKS DOWN FOR THE COUNT
>            An unidentified problem takes down AT&T's frame relay and ATM
>            data networks.

	I'm not inclined to think it's a hack.  Remember the massive
January 1990 phone system failure that AT&T experienced a few years ago? 
That one instantly raised the "hacker flag" and shortly afterward, we had
feds going all over the place trying to bust hackers.

	I'm entirely inclined to cite AT&T incompetence for this one.
There's already a history that points toward as much.  I don't think this
situation is any different.  They likely upgraded their code and didn't
debug it thoroughly, just like _last_ time.

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