“Why would the FAA keep its data systems on links that the public could get at....?”
The incidents at the DOD this year should have taught us all better. No system is hack-proof.
I realize that....why haven’t we learned to create isolated data links and allow no public linkage from the public web at large? Is it that we still want some bureaucrat to be able to crawl out of bed at 3am and find out how his radar systems are working from his home computer with internet provided by cox or comcast?(a captain obvious answer of course...just venting my spleen!)