Glad I Don’t Have A Blackberry
It’s not bad enough that Monday means trudging back to work after the weekend for many people, but Blackberry users also lost their ability to use email. Yesterday, a major service outage affected users of the smart phones across the United States and Canada. All major carriers were affected, including AT&T and Verizon Wireless. No word on the cause or when service would resume, although there were reports of emails starting to trickle in.
That is scary and parked! Glad I don’t have a Blackberry, but it could happen potentially to any of our service providers and affect all of our communication.
From an update this morning, there is still no cause stated, at least not to the public. Doesn’t sound like a hack job, but a software glitch as they’ve experienced in the past. Understanding software and the potential for bugs to appear at any time, it’s a good reminder to all of us to back-up, back-up, back-up.
February 12th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
The PR folks are always going to say it was a software glitch. No one wants to admit someone “hacked” into their servers to cause a denial of service. Oh yeah, security is real good………….