So far, 18 hours into the release of the Iphone 2.0,
3 countries sole retailers of Iphones have been delayed because of "Network Issues". I find this odd because these are, supposedly- the people who will maintain our contract service. If they have this many issues with their intranets, how would they be able to keep up the simultaneous tweet requests of 40,000 users?
Alternatively, this could be a example of a industrial espionage attack in a uniquely profitable episode. When an attacker decides they want to inflict harm, they do it in the most effective way possible. Whether it is a Denial of Service or stealing data, an attacker will do it. In this case, the plausible attackers would be any rival carriers who weren’t awarded with a contract to carry I-Phones. This could be a multi-million/billion dollar loss in revenue from direct sales and contracts. Im eager to see if the same happens in canada, If so- something fishy is going on:Mark My Words.