> > So there you have it. Easy file transfer is _far_ more
> important than
> > reliability and performance! (my tongue is firmly planted
> in my cheek
> > here...)
This quote from the Internet Oracle may be appropriate here:
The Imminent Death of the Net will occur in the year 2003, in the month of
April, when Ziff Davis finally tells Bob Metcalfe to either stop pushing
Imminent Death of the Net articles or, in their words, "Prove it, Mr. 'I
invented Ethernet'."
Enraged, and fearing for his job, Metcalfe will write a worm like program
that searches for Cisco routers without password protection and rewrites
their routing tables in algebraic chess notation. This will unfortunately
include most of the
UUNET-MCI-Worldcom-AOL-AT&T-MSN-Compuserve-Mindspring-Demon MergerCo
backbone which was put together by newly minted "Cisco Certified" personnel
whose entire knowledge of IPv6 router configuration comes from the crib
notes they snuck into their certification exams.
After 24 hours, with the damage done, the worm eliminates all traces of
itself from infected systems. Hundreds, if not thousands of thousands of
MCSE, CNE, and other "certified" personnel will be looking for jobs after
being revealed as empty certificates.
