cyber-"terrorism"?

[Paul Leyland]

> From: Owen Lewis [mailto:oml@sysrx.uk.com]=20
...
> AFAIK, globally, there was no recorded incident of a=20
> catastophic system failure - or even a serious parametric failure
> - occasioned by Y2K. But perhaps your experience was different?

On the stroke of noon, day 99 of 1999, Microsoft UK's main building at =
Reading lost all power.  No other buildings nearby suffered the same =
fate.

This may just be a coincidence.  Coincidences happen.  For instance, MSR =
Cambridge lost all external network connectivity at 13:46 local time =
(08:46 EDT) on September 11 this year.  We were off the net for a couple =
of hours.  The failure was somewhere within the telco --- all of our =
systems at each end of the link were working correctly.  Even though it =
was a coincidence, the conspiracy theorists were having a good time.


Paul