Amaya Toman Technologies also include various failures, errors and outages. We will recall one such - specifically, the historically first outage of the ARPANET network in 1980 - in our article today. It will also be the day hacker Kevin Mitnick was indicted.
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ARPANET Outage (1980)
On October 27, 1980, the ARPANET network, the forerunner of the modern Internet, suffered the first large-scale outage in history. Because of it, the ARPANET stopped working for about four hours, the cause of the outage was an error in the Interface Message Processor (IMP). ARPANET was an acronym for Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork, the network was launched in 1969 and was funded by the United States Department of Defense. The foundation of ARPANET was formed by computers at four universities - UCLA, Stanford Central Research Institute, University of California Santa Barbara and University of Utah.
The Impeachment of Kevin Mitnick (1996)
On October 27, 1996, well-known hacker Kevin Mitnick was indicted for twenty-five different crimes and misdemeanors that he allegedly committed over a period of two and a half years. The police suspected Mitnick of a number of illegal acts, such as unauthorized use of the bus marking system for free travel, unauthorized acquisition of administrative rights to computers at the Computer Learning Center in Los Angeles, or hacking into the systems of Motorola, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu Siemens and next. Kevin Mitnick ended up spending 5 years in prison.
