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> Doug Mentohl wrote:
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>> The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration announced this week that online
>> criminals stole personnel records on more than 45,000 workers after
>> breaching the government agency's network ..
>>
>> While U.S. government agencies have slowly improved their compliance
>> with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), network
>> security continues to be a problem ..
>>
>> http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/908
>
> Hm, is this the same FAA where in recent years "computer glitches" caused
> thousands of travellers to get stranded, airports to get shut down and more
> such trouble? And where Windows was at the heart of the failure every time,
> one such failure having been traced back to a bug which was introduced
> already in Windows 95?
>
> Tsk tsk tsk ...
>
> Richard Rasker
At least the FAA is consistent.
FAA flaw reveals deeper holes
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| Most of the problem is that the FAA has just two computing systems, one in
| Atlanta and one in Salt Lake City, to deal with the whole of the US. There
| was no redundancy, or enough different computers and communication channels
| to handle the same workload in an emergency.
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| If the FAA was a power company and it ran its operations in the same way it
| would be fined hundreds of thousand dollars a day.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/01/faa-flaw-reveals-deeper-holes
http://tinyurl.com/65d58p
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| According to an internal FAA document, the system, called the National
| Airspace Data Interchange Network, crashed on Thursday and caused in
| 134 departure delays. The Salt Lake City system also took over but had
| problems with the high queue level, the document said. The system also
| failed in June 2007.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082602203.html?hpid=sec-nation
Major Flight Delays Caused By Glitch, Dense Fog
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| AMR Corp.'s American Airlines spokesman Tim Wagner acknowledged the
| computer troubles and said the nation's largest carrier experienced
| about 50 cancellations on the East Coast, with LaGuardia departures
| being hit the hardest.
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http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_159145243.html
No Windows Vista For Would-Be Air Traffic Controllers
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| The Federal Aviation Administration plans to bar contractors who administer
| the air traffic controllers exam from using Windows Vista-based PCs.
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http://callcenterinfo.tmcnet.com/news/2008/07/11/3541592.htm
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