Re: For want of a single ethernet card, an airport was lost ...

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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- -- Steven Haigh <netwiz () crc id au> wrote:

> On 18/08/2007, at 5:09 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
> > 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!
>

They don't even have to touch the hardware. :-)

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/11/72051

- - ferg

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