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Re: For want of a single ethernet card, an airport was lost ...
From: Steven Haigh <netwiz () crc id au>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:31:28 +1000
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? ;) -- Steven Haigh Email: netwiz () crc id au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9017 0597 - 0404 087 474
Current thread:
- For want of a single ethernet card, an airport was lost ... Suresh Ramasubramanian (Aug 18)
- Re: For want of a single ethernet card, an airport was lost ... Steven Haigh (Aug 18)
- Re: For want of a single ethernet card, an airport was lost ... Suresh Ramasubramanian (Aug 18)
- Re: For want of a single ethernet card, an airport was lost ... Lixia Zhang (Aug 18)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: For want of a single ethernet card, an airport was lost ... Paul Ferguson (Aug 18)
- Re: For want of a single ethernet card, an airport was lost ... Steven M. Bellovin (Aug 18)
- Re: For want of a single ethernet card, an airport was lost ... Bill Stewart (Aug 20)
- Re: For want of a single ethernet card, an airport was lost ... Stephen Sprunk (Aug 20)
- Re: For want of a single ethernet card, an airport was lost ... Zach White (Aug 21)
- Re: For want of a single ethernet card, an airport was lost ... Steve Gibbard (Aug 21)
- Re: For want of a single ethernet card, an airport was lost ... Steven M. Bellovin (Aug 18)
- Re: For want of a single ethernet card, an airport was lost ... Steven Haigh (Aug 18)
- Re: For want of a single ethernet card, an airport was lost ... Michael Sinatra (Aug 22)