U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

[bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com (bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com)]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 09:51:52AM -0400, Brandon Ross wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Michael Painter wrote:
> 
> >Have we all gone mad?
> 
> Absolutely!  For example, those thousands of flight plans filed every day 
> by airlines across the globe, not to mention private flights, should be 
> done manually the old fashioned way, with a paper form and stopping by 
> your local FAA office where a human keys them into the ATC computer.  Oh 
> wait, we closed all of those offices when we moved all of those functions 
> to the Internet.  I guess we'll just have to re-open them.

	yeah!  jobs for americans!
	actually, the interesting questions raised are along the
	lines of "what is your contingency plan?" ... the big EMP
	is coming.  
	
> Heck, removing all of these functions from the Internet will create jobs, 
> too, right?  And no one would mind paying for all of this out of their 
> airline tickets, it should only increase fares by a third or so.
> 
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