Wall Street Journal (August 13)
Some Internet connections have been disrupted this week and more bumps are expected. “The situation echoes—if faintly—the hubbub over the feared Y2K computer glitch in the late 1990s, when experts warned that systems could fail because their dating functions hadn’t been designed to handle the turn of the century.” The total number of Internet paths through the global web has grown to approximately 500,000, exceeding the number some old network routers can accommodate. “More websites and broadband firms are likely to feel the pinch in coming days as they hit the seemingly arbitrary limit,” necessitating the upgrade or replacement of older routers.
Tags: Broadband, Connections, Disrupt, Internet, Paths, Replacement, Routers, Upgrade, Websites, Y2K
Los Angeles Times (April 13)
“The upside of the Heartbleed bug is that it reminds the world of the need not just for coders to plug the security holes in their software but for websites and services to stay on top of the changes.”
Tags: Bug, Coders, Heartbleed, Security holes, Services, Software, Upside, Websites
