The Media Drop

In what isn’t really surprising to me but what might be to others, CNN/Money has a story Wednesday about the possibility that mobile phone networks could be damaged or slowed by an individual or group who sent a flood of text messages its way. Truly, it’s like anything else of this sort - the pipes are only so big and data can only be processed so fast - find the weak point, and go for it. This is why various thresholds and failsafes are put in place, just like you see search request thresholds on message boards and comment throttling on weblogs.