[98891] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: For want of a single ethernet card, an airport was lost ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Sinatra)
Wed Aug 22 16:54:24 2007
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:39:53 -0700
From: Michael Sinatra <michael@rancid.berkeley.edu>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070818173752.0BEE07660D8@berkshire.machshav.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:09:10 GMT
> "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net> wrote:
>
>
>> They don't even have to touch the hardware. :-)
>>
>> http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/11/72051
>>
> Did you see what the GAO found when they audited the US-VISIT network?
> The summary is at
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/02/AR2007080202260.html?hpid=sec-nation;
> the full report is at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07870.pdf
Interesting. At SFO, US-VISIT shut down completely about 1-2 months
ago. Maybe it will come back when they fix the system. Can't find any
article confirming that the overall program was shut down, but I can
verify that the US-VISIT program at SFO is gone, at least for the time
being.
michael