U.S. Terror alert raised after Google DNS outage
Posted by Matthew on Sunday May 8, 2005 @12:32PM
from the trigger-affect dept.
Matthew writes: The Department of Homeland Security raised the current threat level to Orange after Google became unavailable for a period of 15 minutes late Saturday afternoon, resulting in nationwide spasm of looting and civil disorder.
“While apparently the result of a mistake in DNS settings, the Google outage underscores how vulnerable some of our national infrastructure remains. Much work is left to be done to secure our communities, homes, and search engines from the terrorist threat.” said DoHS Secretary Michael Chertoff.
“I want to assure everyone that the outage was a simple error, not the result of a security related incident. Please return any merchandise you may have stolen in the last fifteen minutes, try to put out those tire fires, and unload your firearms. Civilization has not ended.”