[127666] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Thu Jul 8 12:08:56 2010
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 16:08:36 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSX.4.64.1007080943480.340@cevin-2.local>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 09:51:52AM -0400, Brandon Ross wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Michael Painter wrote:
>
> >Have we all gone mad?
>
> Absolutely! For example, those thousands of flight plans filed every day
> by airlines across the globe, not to mention private flights, should be
> done manually the old fashioned way, with a paper form and stopping by
> your local FAA office where a human keys them into the ATC computer. Oh
> wait, we closed all of those offices when we moved all of those functions
> to the Internet. I guess we'll just have to re-open them.
yeah! jobs for americans!
actually, the interesting questions raised are along the
lines of "what is your contingency plan?" ... the big EMP
is coming.
> Heck, removing all of these functions from the Internet will create jobs,
> too, right? And no one would mind paying for all of this out of their
> airline tickets, it should only increase fares by a third or so.
>
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