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Fake Steve Jobs wants to attack AT&T. Bad idea. But here's a good one..

markthespotI'm not sure how many of you know about this, but Dan Lyons (the fake Steve Jobs) was trying to get people to attack AT&T by having a tons of people run a heavy data application, like uploading video, or downloading a really large file, all at the same time.  BTW, this is also known as a DNS attack (Denigal of Service).  It was called Operation Chokehold.  Now, after quite a bit of negative reaction (no surprise), he posted up saying it was a joke that got out of hand.  Yea right, maybe.  But Ryan Ritchey from The Digital Lifestyle came up with what I think is a pretty good idea.  We can still have a protest but instead of bringing the system down and thus pissing off a lot of other users, we can collect useful information about where the deadspots are.  Welcome to Operation Feedback. Instead of a DNS attack on AT&T, we should instead use the iphone app Mark The Spot app (by AT&T funny enough) to report every instance of any dropped call or interruption.  We'll see what happens on Friday.

Astonishing that Dan Lyons

Astonishing that Dan Lyons would promote such an idea. Dangerous, too, since people depend on their mobile phones. I hope Operation Feedback doesn't tax the network.

Jim 

Was he joking?

Well, Dan does try to be funny, and today on the radio he again claimed it was a joke that got out of hand.  But when you read his post, it does not feel like a joke.  I'm not how much I believe him, but he does like to push things so...

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