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Title: An Unfortunate Mishap (BLACKBERRY SHUTDOWN IN D.C. PART OF DOCUMENT ERASURE?)
Source: Daily Kos
URL Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/18/9149/72329
Published: Apr 18, 2007
Author: "rerutled"
Post Date: 2007-04-18 18:52:16 by aristeides
Keywords: None
Views: 152
Comments: 7

An Unfortunate Mishap

by rerutled [Subscribe]
Wed Apr 18, 2007 at 06:20:02 AM PDT

What a shame. It seems that Research In Motion is experiencing some unexplained difficulties with their email servers, and the entire system is down while they work on it.

Later today, they'll be sorry to report that all emails sent before this past Monday -- in particular, emails which contain the words "Iglesias", "Lam" or "that bastard Sampson" have been inadvertently erased, using the "secure erase" feature. In fact, the relevant disk drives burst into flames. And the rooms in which they were stored fell over a nearby cliff, on which they were precariously pearched. And then disintegrated into sub-atomic particles. Which were then swallowed by an opening in the time-space continuum, and taken to the center of the black hole in M87.

Sad, really.

They'll let us know when they find the back up.

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BlackBerry Inc. Involved in Erasure? (58+ / 0-)

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BlackBerry has one of the newest, best designed and robust IT systems on the face of the earth.

Despite this fact, for reasons not explained, BlackBerry has shut down large portions of US operations at least twice in the last two days.

Last night from 8:12PM to 12.42AM most or all of the DC Area was without BlackBerry Service.

Why?

All four layers of backup all went down at once? If it did so, it is the first time in the history of computing 4x backed up 99.99 up time systems failed at once.

However. Giant Shut Downs are done at times

When someone needs to do a HUGE search and erasure process or massive turn over of a system in an emergency. Who could have such a massive emergency?

What could have demanded BlackBerry take the entire network be down?

No credible IT person believes this is not deliberate.

Why?

Given the ongoing, and potentially company ending patent suites faced by BlackBerry/RIM there is no question a vast amount of leverage could have been brought by the people (Exec. Branch of Govt) who control the patents by which BlackBerry/RIM will live or die.

What happenned? What is happenning?

A giant cover up is underway in the IT corridors of DC. Huge.

It's not just GWB43. It's massive.

BTW...this is not trivial...my clients...law enforcement officers in the field included were stranded....as were doctors, nurses, hospitals...

Can we Impeach Now?

by KStreetProjector on Wed Apr 18, 2007 at 10:25:59 AM PDT

An interesting later posting on a different Daily Kos thread.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-04-18   18:55:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Sounds kind of spooky, doesn't it? :P

War and Slavery go together, just as Peace and Freedom do.

Peetie Wheatstraw  posted on  2007-04-18   19:02:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I diaried on the fundraiser last night. (9+ / 0-)

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So I used up my one a day.

And I appreciate people don't like TinFoil here.

But I build big IT Systems.

A 4x 99.99 access system has a less than 1 in 10B chance of going down completely by accident.

This was not an "accident"

BlackBerry was either: A - turned off for some reason that was major and needed massive "private time" to do something to the network while off-line or B - was attacked by a super targetted attack that showed up on no other CERT operation.

by KStreetProjector on Wed Apr 18, 2007 at 11:57:40 AM PDT

KStreetProjector later posted some more on that same Daily Kos thread.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-04-18   19:06:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Different System, Exceeded Load Capacity. (3+ / 0-)

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TurboTax is a different issue on different servers set on different networks.

And a failure during maximum load is completely understandable.

That happens.

TurboTax tried to design their servers for just barely the needs for a maximum load, and didn't correctly calculate for maximum load capacity.

BlackBerry, after the system failures 3 years ago when it turned out large portions of the network were NOT backed up, promised to deploy 2x2 load balanced systems, which means functionally any one of 4 servers can cover you if one portion fails...the backup kick in...if that fails...anaother...and another...

by KStreetProjector on Wed Apr 18, 2007 at 12:03:39 PM PDT

Another posting by him.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-04-18   19:09:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

My Clients are BIG BlackBerry Users. (5+ / 0-)

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Our companies phones started lighting up at 8:15 PM.

By 9PM we had all IT hands on Deck trying to support people in critical jobs.

We know a great deal about the system, it's limits etc.

I don't know what happenned.

RIM-Blackberry has not said, as far as we know, WTF that was.

But, in our pretty substantial experience, this only makes sense if it was deliberately turned off, or a massive targetted attack, probably involving and insider.

I will be hard pressed to believe any other story of how this went down.

by KStreetProjector on Wed Apr 18, 2007 at 12:08:06 PM PDT

And another.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-04-18   19:09:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

April 17, 2007 -- Our sources inform us that a possible fire today has knocked out classified communications services at the US State Department's Communications Annex facility (State Communications Annex - SA26 - in Beltsville, Maryland), just outside of Washington, DC. Also affected by the outage is the joint National Security Agency-Central Intelligence Agency Special Collection Service (SCS) (F6) ("CSSG") located in a building off Springfield Road and located adjacent to SA-26, which is located at 8101 Odell Road. The SCS relies on the State Department backbone secure satellite communications for its links to covert listening posts and devices around the world. Agencies affected by the communications outage are the State Department, NSA, CIA, and Department of Defense. The State Department has been forced to use its backup facility. a CIA facility located at Brandy Station in northern Virginia.

Last October, a 6-alarm fire broke out on the roof of Nathan Hale Hall on NSA's Fort Meade, Maryland complex. Among other units, the building housed the 902nd Military Intelligence Unit, which maintains the Threat and Local Observation Notice database used to surveill threats to Army bases and personnel. "Threats" included peace and veterans groups.

I wonder if this report by Wayne Madsen is connected.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-04-18   19:19:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Is Abu Gonzales still scheduled to testify tomorrow morning? Or will he resign prior to then?

Interesting thread, although the techie details are above my pay grade.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2007-04-18   22:50:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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