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To: Bucky Katt who wrote (7284)	3/8/2002 3:10:47 PM
From: Silver_Bullet	Respond to of 48461

If a machine detects a bomb what is the reasoning for shutting down the whole airport? I would think you would transfer the suspecting baggage to a vehicle and move it to an area that wouldn't hurt anyone, as fast as possible, should it blow up. But that would be logical. No recession!! Yeah Haw! We just had a temporary slowing of growth. Now we get to look forward to interest rate raising to head of that inflation because of our rapid growth. If they don't get you coming, the get you going. BTW, anyone notice China's GDP growth.. It's like 7.3%. english.peopledaily.com.cn FT

To: Bucky Katt who wrote (7284)	3/8/2002 5:58:11 PM
From: BW	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 48461

Did anyone hear anything about this latest virus attack? this is a post from a friend who works for IBM. 3/6/02 Boyd ---------------- This is the question you need to ask your IT department. Do you have internal firewalls or safeguards againsed internal sabotage or hacking? The reason I bring this up is monday, a disgruntled employee of a major (and I mean MAJOR!!) national brokerage house, was fired. This person apparently had very high level system access and went back to the office, got on the system and introduced a virus that literally wiped out over one thousand four hundred brokerage offices nationwide. Every single one of nearly five thousand servers had the hard drives completely wiped clean. I just got up from putting in a 32 hour day at one of these 1400 locations recovering from the last good tape backup set they had and spending over 6 hours on a nationwide conference call to get my location back online to the system. In my 15 years of service with IBM I have never seen such a catastrophic company wide event caused by sabotage. How they have been able to successfully keep this out of the press is beyond me. I will say thier technical support staff, along with IBM put forth a hurculean effort to get the system back up as fast as it did. (after 24 hours about 75% of the offices were back up and running) They will have to pay IBM for the recovery because sabotage is obviously not covered in warranty or maintenence contracts. This is going to run into the multi-millions of dollars, not to mention 2 days worth of trading buisness lost to the company itself. (that would make our fee pale in comparison) Man, I'm tired.