Crumbs
Rich T finds some tasty titbits you might have missed in the week's news
Tuesday 2 January 2007, 4:39 PM
Vulnerable Web
Christmas is always a bit of a quiet time for news. Let's face it, no company will release anything new because all their staff are on holiday, and no-one says anything of note, because they are, well, probably on holiday themselves.
But being Christmas, we dug and we dug and then... that earthquake happened.
Credit to our esteemed news editor Graeme Wearden for turning that one over, but it rather does bemuse me how easy it is for a whole nation — Taiwan in this case — to lose its internet access.
At one stage every second packet didn't reach its the Asian island. And it's not the first time: large swathes of Iceland were wiped off the face of the internet just a fortnight ago.
If there is so little redundancy in our Tier 1 networks (and 95% of all our internet traffic in the UK passes through one point), we really do have something to worry about with our global communications if something really nasty happens.
But being Christmas, we dug and we dug and then... that earthquake happened.
Credit to our esteemed news editor Graeme Wearden for turning that one over, but it rather does bemuse me how easy it is for a whole nation — Taiwan in this case — to lose its internet access.
At one stage every second packet didn't reach its the Asian island. And it's not the first time: large swathes of Iceland were wiped off the face of the internet just a fortnight ago.
If there is so little redundancy in our Tier 1 networks (and 95% of all our internet traffic in the UK passes through one point), we really do have something to worry about with our global communications if something really nasty happens.
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