Valleywag (the Silicon Valley Gossip site recently upgraded by means of well-known tech business reporter Owen Thomas becoming the valleywag), posted a detailed log event by log event account of the investigation by Drew Curtis, Fark’s founder, who figured out that a would-be hacker was a Fox news reporter.
The basic correlation technique is one I […]

This one’s even worse than taking Ebay’s market cap down $1 billion yesterday.
Why do outages last this long? Because it’s too hard to find out where the problem happened.
Skype finally posted that the issue was a problem in their networking code at 10 p.m. last night, about a full day after the problem started, while […]