Dec
17
2009
Fake Steve Jobs, the nom de guerre of Newsweek’s Dan Lyons, got a ton of attention for his Operation Chokehold campaign to effectively DDoS the AT&T data network, including from AT&T itself and the FCC, [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: AT&T, fake steve, network problems, News, operation chokehold
Dec
16
2009
In response to Fake Steve’s call for Operation Chokehold — a flashmob event intended to overwhelm AT&T’s data network — AT&T has told Cult of Mac:
We understand that fakesteve.net is primarily a satirical [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: AT&T, fake steve, News, operation chokehold
Dec
15
2009
Fake Steve Jobs has had enough of AT&T and their “bastardly behavior over bandwidth usage” and so is launching a crowd-sourced, flash-mobbed, Rickson Gracie-style assault on their network called “Operation Chokehold“:
Subject: Operation Chokehold
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Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: AT&T, fake steve, News, operation chokehold