[117054] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ready to get your federal computer license?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Warren)
Sun Aug 30 23:17:46 2009
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:16:58 -0400
From: William Warren <hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908281802570.85863@nog.angryox.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 8/28/2009 6:11 PM, Peter Beckman wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Hiers, David wrote:
>
>> Governments already license stock brokers, pilots, commercial drivers,
>> accountants, engineers, all sorts of people whose mistakes can be
>> measured in the loss of hundreds of lives and millions of dollars.
>
> "'The power company allowed their network security to be comprimised
> by a
> single Windows computer connected to the Internet in the main control
> facility, so we unplugged the entire Internet to mitigate the attack,'
> said Senator Rockefeller, the author of the bill that enabled the
> President to take swift action after an unknown hacker used the
> Internet
> to break into Brominion Power's main control facility and turn off the
> power to the entire East Coast. 'It will remain unplugged and
> nobody in
> the US will be allowed to connect to the Internet until the power is
> back
> on and this hacker is brought to justice.'
>
> Authorities are having a difficult time locating the hacker due to the
> unavailability of the Internet and electricity, and cannot communicate
> with lawmakers via traditional means due to the outage. A formal
> request
> to turn the power and Internet back on was sent on a pony earlier this
> afternoon to lawmakers in DC."
>
> Can't wait.
>
> Beckman
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> Peter Beckman
> Internet Guy
> beckman@angryox.com
> http://www.angryox.com/
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>
ROFL!
