Posted on 06/15/2021 2:38:58 PM PDT by conservativeimage
Southwest Airlines grounded flights across the country Tuesday for the second time in less than 24 hours, amid reports of nationwide computer issues.
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https://www.fr24news.com/a/2021/06/southwest-resumes-flights-after-weather-data-system-forced-ground-shutdown.html
ransomware
yup
Vlad doing a pre pedo joe tete a tete show? Is Pedo joe’s fave HAmtrak next? 😱😴
IMO, this is not a coincidence if a computer issue actually caused the shut down....
First hackers take down a pipeline, then a beef processor, is it possible they have taken down a airline...
Over the last few years Delta and United both shutdown their flights for reasons that did not cause suspicion from the public but if you have any network engineering knowledge you would immediately be skeptical...
Putin attacking US, right before meeting with Biden tomorrow in Geneva, Switzerland. Putin has balls, while Biden has marbles in his head.
Have no fear, Demented Joe is up to the job!
At some point we’re going to wake up and find nobody’s GPS is working and every street and interstate sign has been stolen over night. Nobody will be able to navigate anywhere.
Those IT guys are really overpaid.
I’ll still get around. I don’t use GPS very often and I know all the backroads. I also have an excellent sense of direction.
No. Stuff just breaks.
I have network engineering knowledge. More importantly I understand how often companies accidentally build single points of failure. Which is what most of these come down to. In this case it was Soutwest’s weather app couldn’t get reliable connection.
Honestly when you really think about it we have surprisingly few outages. Considering that basically every major company on the planet is doing their business through networks that were built more than they were designed, every IT room in the country has half a dozen computers that nobody knows what they do, or even how to login. What’s suspicious is how much stuff works.
And every street sign will be in Mongolian.
I can still read a map can’t you?
I can still read a map can’t you?
Freaking double posts! Wth causes that? I don’t press hard on the post button. Dangit
And every street sign will be in Mongolian.
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Worse. Bidenese.
Also ransomware took out the Cape Cod / Nantucket Ferry system.
Windows 10 Home and Pro will be retired on 14 October 2025 then expect to pay ransom every month
You’re right we have surprisingly few major network outages which is why when I hear of one it raises my suspicions...
In the case of Delta, they shutdown their worldwide network because of a power failure at a data center in Atlanta, according to Delta.
In the case of United they claimed their worldwide outage was due to a router configuration changed in Chicago...
I’m calling BS on both of those cases....
In Delta’s case if a power failure in Atlanta caused a worldwide outage, if that’s true, then a whole bunch of IT people need to be immediately fired.....
In United’s case, I’ve made enough router changes in worldwide networks to know, if that is true, again a whole bunch of IT people need to be fired....
I’m intimately familiar with the Change Control process of major companies, one of the things required to make changes is a testing procedure after changes are made and a back out procedure if your changes fail.....
I’ve seen multiple times were changes went south on a worldwide network that caused outages, none shut down the entire network and none required hours to resolve.
I saw a guy put in a router change that took down the entire east coast ATM network of a major bank, that was corrected in less than 1 hour...
I’ve seen a guy take down over 20,000 voice mail accounts from a major account that took about 3-4 hours to correct....
when this type of thing happens usually a root cause analysis is done and when all the investigation is done, people get disciplined.....
I almost was fired from a job one time when I was accuse of operating outside a change control which I did, but my excuse was I did not know the change control was input incorrectly...
I produced my documentation that clearly described the change, the issue was the person inputting the change did not include all the router names and changes....
Even though I operated outside of the change control, nothing was taken down but I was still almost fired.
I sure hope these pilots know how to land these planes in case of computer failure, or failure of the air traffic control systems or what have you. I’m sure they do, but it seems everything is possible now with these cyberattacks.
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