Biggest Threat To Communications Infrastructure: Crappy Pop Bands

from the oops-we-did-it-again dept

It's hardly surprising to hear about heavy demand for concert tickets taking down web sites, since ticketing sites have a long history of technical problems they still haven't quite managed to work out. But over in the UK, demand for tickets to the refill-our-coffers reunion tour of 90s boy band Take That didn't just take down some ticket sites, it managed to knock out several thousand unrelated BT phone lines as well. Forget botnets spawning from email worms and viruses; it would appear the botnet of tens of thousands of nostalgic women herded by a washed-up pop act is what causes the real damage.
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  • identicon
    Hoeppner, 5 Mar 2007 @ 6:47pm

    :mood, amused:

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    Charles Griswold, 5 Mar 2007 @ 7:29pm

    That's Gotta Hurt

    BT got "pwnd" by a boy band. Ouch.

    Nth post!

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  • identicon
    misanthropic humanist, 5 Mar 2007 @ 8:20pm

    mood: frightened

    We're under attack! Terrorists!
    n+1th post

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  • identicon
    theOngman, 5 Mar 2007 @ 8:56pm

    rofl

    this rofled my waffle

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  • identicon
    Ayal Rosenthal, 5 Mar 2007 @ 9:05pm

    Poor Brits

    I don't want to know what happens when Oasis gets back together.

    link to this | view in chronology ]

  • identicon
    I_NEED_HELP, 6 Mar 2007 @ 12:42am

    OASIS

    Oasis are still together Ayal Rosenthal

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    Joe C, 6 Mar 2007 @ 1:55am

    Not washed up

    I'm not a fan however I think the writeup is somewhat unfair to Take That (oh god I'm defending them!).
    This is actually a genuine reunion not a cash in. They didn't expect much, just a one-off show for nostalgia value. It snowballed after that though, helped by some strong new material including a number 1. However you're right in that the fan base is somewhat older now!
    Not exactly what I call washed-up.

    Just thought I'd put the Americans straight :-)

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  • identicon
    Enrico Suarve, 6 Mar 2007 @ 2:41am

    Oh the shame...

    My countries comms infrastructure dented by a boy-band

    Oh the paralysing shame of it all

    Thank fuck Robbie hadn't joined them - we'd have probably imploded

    Can't.......even work in.........reference......to.......bush

    Oh the shame

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  • identicon
    Harry L, 6 Mar 2007 @ 10:37am

    re: Reunion Tours

    Well I supposed it's a good thing for the British economy that the Spice Girls reunion tour looks like it won't happen.

    link to this | view in chronology ]

  • identicon
    Jezsik, 6 Mar 2007 @ 12:43pm

    It could be worse

    I mean, the Bay City Rollers might go on tour

    link to this | view in chronology ]


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