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

[Michael Sinatra <michael () rancid berkeley 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