[funsec] iTunes Store brought to its knees by Video iPod announcement

[Fergie (Paul Ferguson)]

How's that for a Denial of Service attack? :-)

Via Netcraft.

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The Apple Store was offline for more than an hour following the launch of a new video-enabled iPod, which was unveiled today after months of anticipation. While the launch of a new Apple product routinely leads to brief "restocking" outages for the Apple store, today's downtime was longer than usual, perhaps due to web traffic generated by the pent-up curiosity of iPod lovers.

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http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/10/12/video_ipod_launch_slows_apple_store.html

- ferg


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