Posted on 02/18/2003 12:52:46 PM PST by acnielsen guy
At 4:15am EST a strange thing happened on the Internet. Two Freepers were posting pictures and communicating with each other, one in Spain and the other in Florida. Suddenly all logos and pictures filed to appear on the separate sites although the text did. Up to that time the refresh time was two to three seconds. A single server going down or a photographic site disabled is common and would not be a cause for concern. But when servers in two different countries are affected at precisely the same time with only graphics involved then we have a very unusual phenomenon.
Checking sites in different countries produced the same results, text showed immediately but logos and pictures were blank. In about six minutes everything was back to normal.
1. Server failures or takedowns last longer than six minutes and do not come back up in synchronization.
2. All hosting sites do not fail at the same time.
3. Servers in different countries do not have the same unusual problem at the same time.
My conclusion is that this could only have been an engineered failure.
America and Britain run the Internet, for them to practice a takedown without anyone being aware of it could be accomplished in just the manner that it happened at 4:15am this morning.
A picture failing to show is a very common failure because of the host site being serviced; ones own server having a glitch it could be caused by an overload or for many other reasons. No one would even give it a minute’s thought. People working in isolation would not realize that anything strange was happening. In all my time on the Internet I have never known all logos to disappear on all sites and yet the text still show. That failure is itself a rare anomaly. I understand that all graphics are on separate directories and accessed independently, so a block could easily be placed on them. The success of the block would be a sufficient test of a takedown of the entire Internet.
Why would anyone do it? The answer, in my view is simple, to save the Iraqi oil wells. It does not take a genius to think you can fire 8OO rockets and then take over wells rigged with explosives. They must be taken over before anyone knows the war has started. The take over must be accomplished quickly and everywhere at the same time without warning, all communication must be cut, both in the country and around the world. Satellites and the Internet have to be temporarily silenced.
Does that make sense of the strange happening at 4:15am this morning?
Nothing to see here; move along.
Al Gore was just doing a little fine-tuning last night ...
Add to this strange incident that Mrs. Dawgg lost two socks in the Dryer this morning and I think we have a disturbing trend developing.
It addresses performance problems such as removing unused files that do nothing but take up space, and defragmenting ip packets.
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