[191247] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Kuhnke)
Tue Aug 30 19:25:13 2016
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From: Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:25:08 -0700
To: nanog@nanog.org
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If public transit operators can put a breakable plexiglass shield over the
emergency door opening handle, on every bus, it's not a very high technical
barrier.
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
>
> See that big red button on the wall under the sign "Do Not Push This
> Button!"....
>
>
> DC 911 outage caused by contractor error
> http://wtop.com/dc/2016/08/dc-911-outage-caused-by-contracto
> r-who-pulled-wrong-switch/
>
> WASHINGTON =E2=80=94 D.C. is now operating two separate 911 centers after=
a power
> outage caused by human error left the nation=E2=80=99s capital without an=
y
> emergency phone service for almost an hour on a busy weekend night.
>
> A contractor working Saturday night inadvertently pulled an emergency
> power shut off switch that cut electricity to the 911 phone system and a
> call routing system at the District=E2=80=99s Unified Communications Cent=
er, said
> the center=E2=80=99s Director Karima Holmes.
>
> =E2=80=9CUnfortunately because it was human error we weren=E2=80=99t prep=
ared for it,=E2=80=9D
> Holmes said.
>
> [...]
>
>
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