Real life virus may bring down interweb, US Gov fears
source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/27/AR2009102703743.html
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All of the people working from home due to swine flu are a threat to the smooth running off the interweb, the US GAO (Government Accountability Office) have said. The GAO believe that sick 'telecommuters' and their bored off-school offspring will overwhelm parts of the 'net.
According to the Washington Post:
'The Department of Homeland Security is in charge of communications networks during times of national emergency. But it doesn't have a strategy to deal with overloaded Internet networks.'
According to the Washington Post:
'The Department of Homeland Security is in charge of communications networks during times of national emergency. But it doesn't have a strategy to deal with overloaded Internet networks.'
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JClem
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I can't honestly believe that the internet would go down even if loads of people off sick all logged on at one time. It would take a huge surge of users to bring it to its knee's, otherwise hacking botnets would be taking the whole thing offline all the time
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