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Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies
From: "J. Oquendo" <sil () infiltrated net>
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:13:47 -0400
Brandon Ross wrote:
Do people really think the guy in the airport control tower is really surfing Facebook while he's controlling aircraft on the same computer, or that capability is even what is under consideration?
"Air traffic controller suspended for allowing son to radio instructions to pilots at New York's Kennedy Airport" http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/030410dnnatairtraffic.170a785b7.html "Air traffic controller suspended, was chatting on phone with girlfriend during Hudson River crash" http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/08/13/2009-08-13_air_traffic_controller__on_phone_with_girlfriend__an_supervisor_suspended_over_h.html Huh? ... Scary isn't it: "Pilots were working on laptops when plane overflew Minneapolis destination" http://www.japantoday.com/category/world/view/wayward-pilots-were-working-on-their-laptops-when-plane-overflew-minneapolis-destination There is that capability however, you may be looking at it from a different perspective. It's easy enough to plop open an iPhone for Internet usage. I'm almost positive there are no "smart phone" policies in an Air Traffic Control tower. -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ J. Oquendo SGFA, SGFE, C|EH, CNDA, CHFI, OSCP, CPT "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." - Warren Buffett 227C 5D35 7DCB 0893 95AA 4771 1DCE 1FD1 5CCD 6B5E http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x5CCD6B5E
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- Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies, (continued)
- Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies joel jaeggli (Jul 07)
- Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies Adrian Chadd (Jul 07)
- Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 07)
- RE: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies Tomas L. Byrnes (Jul 11)
- Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies sjk (Jul 11)
- Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies Michael Painter (Jul 07)
- Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies Jason Lewis (Jul 08)
- Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies Brandon Ross (Jul 08)
- Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies Joe Greco (Jul 08)
- Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies Brandon Ross (Jul 08)
- Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies J. Oquendo (Jul 08)
- Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies bross (Jul 08)
- Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies Owen DeLong (Jul 08)
- Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies Shrdlu (Jul 08)
- Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies Joe Greco (Jul 08)
- Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies bmanning (Jul 08)
- RE: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies George Bonser (Jul 08)
- Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies Owen DeLong (Jul 08)
- Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies Curtis Maurand (Jul 08)
- Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies Jared Mauch (Jul 08)