Begin forwarded message: From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: April 2, 2006 5:29:26 PM EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IP] more on Emergency text messages and AB 2231 On Sat, 1 Apr 2006 17:01:17 -0500, David Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Unintended consequences can really get you with this one. Cell phone networks are often the first telecom technology to get overloaded (or in some cases just fail completely) in an emergency.
Also note that according to some reports, sending too many SMS messages can overload the voice signaling network; see http://www.patrickmcdaniel.org/abstracts.html#abs6 --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as [email protected] To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
