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On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> Yah. I'm a security guy, and hence suspicious by nature -- our slogan
> is "Paranoia is our Profession" -- and I'm getting very concerned. The
> old saying comes to mind: "once is happenstance, twice is coincidence,
> but the third time is enemy action". The alternative some common mode
> failure -- perhaps the storm others have noted.
It may just be the normal growing pains networks go through as they reach
a certain size and those "minor" problems become "major" problems. When
the Internet was sparser in the USA, we had similar "concindences."
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