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NSA site goes down in blaze of badly-engineered DNS glory

Jackson West · 05/16/08 03:40PM

The website of the National Security Agency went down yesterday. No, it wasn't subject to "cyber terrorism," just bad network management — specifically, its domain-name servers, according to Arbor Networks' Danny McPherson. But don't worry, everyone, the site is back up! Still, the fact that it sports a Flash interface doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the engineering ability of our information overlords. (Photo by Ryan Lackey)