posted on January 4, 2001 11:30:38 AM
Don't blame things on hackers that can be explained by ordinary machine failures.
When a large system has any part fail, it will often bring the whole thing down. And the trickiest part of getting running - the part that has the greatest chance of failure - is rebooting servers. They can be cranky, and is something is teetering on the edge of a failure, crashing and rebooting can shove it off the edge too.
posted on January 4, 2001 12:05:24 PM
HCQ!
Hey, I have a mental disability, OK. I am unable to see conspiracies and hackers every where I look. It's my Vulcan g-g-g-father, dang him! Left me with rampant logic. ]
Besides, I've worked with large computer systems and it's much easier to bring them down accidentally from the inside than hack them. (just ask me ... I can wipe out a departmental website with a single key-stroke, and crash a roomful of servers by tripping over a power cord and landing on the of switch.)
