It happened about a year ago, as I recall. DEN was fine, but ATL went down.

 

I'd be more concerned with the fact that the FAA has essentially moved from having a private dedicated network with leased lines to run their infrastructure to a "shared" infrastructure, that also carries the Internet. Specifically, the FAA (a sub-contractor) has reached out to service providers and have asked them to cut a "slice" of their infrastructure off to place the FAA network in. This is all done in the name of cost reduction. Building your own private network with your own gear, circuits, etc costs a lot of money. Buying circuits to a service provider and having their gear terminate and handle the routing is a low-cost option (aka L3VPN, L2VPN).

The problem with this is that sensitive FAA data is routing through the same layer-3 equipment that transports your porn and APC rumors. Any misconfiguration (aka provisioning error) of the routers involved and you could run into a situation where perhaps Al-Jazeeras VPN that they use between offices has visibility into the FAA. That's a worst case scenario, another scenario is that when you use shared infrastructures, attacks from the Internet could also cripple the same equipment. No matter what, Internet related events should not be riding alongside FAA bits.

There's a lot more to be worried about, but when we start sacrificing security for cost reductions, bad things happen.

 

The trick is we need to put the money we spend in taxes in to programs like this. Not some of the other fluff. I agree with everything you are saying Tortue

 

This just in: We have secured undercover photos of air traffic personnel attempting to rectifiy the problems. At least three programmers are hurriedly correcting the program

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Bwahahahaha! Someday, you'll have integrated circuits running the air traffic system.

 

Very true, I was talking about the defense agencies...there are many other government and infrastructure organizations which are not well protected at all.

 

You will know a lot more about that than me, but watch the 60 Minutes piece. Someone was able to get into CENTCOM's network and see all communications, troop movements, everything for three days. It was done by someone leaving memory sticks laying around and a soldier picking one up and hooking into a networked computer. Once plugged in, the stick sent a code that allowed the user/hacker access to the entire network. Apparently we aren't as protected as some would want us to believe.

 

I bet it was a "DAL North" guy!!
fbh

 

If they start jamming my porn there will be he11 to pay.