
Home With the Flu? No YouTube for You!

The U.S. Government Accountability Office yesterday released a report outlining the effect that a swine flu epidemic might have on our broadband infrastructure. It appears to be an effort to goad the Department of Homeland Security to come up with some way to ensure that the Internet keeps functioning for essential communications and financial transactions if a large chunk of the country calls in sick or is ordered to stay home. Turns out that H1N1-related illness will lead to network congestion, according to the hysterical report out from the government watchdog agency. The agency interviewed ISPs and used previous studies to determine that in case of a pandemic with more than 40 percent of office workers and students home surfing the web, our networks would be inconveniently …

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