[98808] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: For want of a single ethernet card, an airport was lost ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Haigh)
Sat Aug 18 05:44:55 2007
In-Reply-To: <bb0e440a0708180009j44dff449k77fdd7e3ced2f4fc@mail.gmail.com>
From: Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:31:28 +1000
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 18/08/2007, at 5:09 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> This is rich .. LAX airport shut down for hours because of a PC with a
> duff network card. Now I wonder which major contractor has the
> contract to set up and run the network at LAX, and how much in damages
> and SLA costs he is looking at, when an airport gets shut down from 2
> pm to midnight.
>
> http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2007/08/lax-outage-is-b.html
Wow, one little article, sooo much FUD. This quote really takes the
cake:
(((Nothing like that *so far,* that is. But why not dwell on the
notion that terrorists can remotely transform the US Customs Service
into a weapon against innocent travellers?)))
Oh noes! The terrerists can kill all the airports by installing dodgy
network cards in a machine!
I wonder if the machine had an RTL8139 card in there? ;)
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Steven Haigh
Email: netwiz@crc.id.au
Web: http://www.crc.id.au
Phone: (03) 9017 0597 - 0404 087 474
