Slashdot Mirror
One Failed NIC Strands 20,000 At LAX
The card in question experienced a partial failure that started about 12:50 p.m. Saturday, said Jennifer Connors, a chief in the office of field operations for the Customs and Border Protection agency. As data overloaded the system, a domino effect occurred with other computer network cards, eventually causing a total system failure. A spokeswoman for the airports agency said airport and customs officials are discussing how to handle a similar incident should it occur in the future.
So a desktop got infected and started to Spew crap onto the network. Then we blame it on the nic it self..
HaH security what is that? when 1/2 our personal information can be found on p2p networks because government employees can't actually do the job they have to screw around and download music / movies or whom knows what else. What would make air port employees any different..
When you boil down to the root problem you'll find it's Lack of leaders ship allowing these problems / attitudes to exist.
And Great out tax dollars paid for this Screw up.
How can I put this delicately...uhh.."fuck you, asshole"...
Hope that's subtle and ontopic enough. If you can't read the headlines and see things aren't going real smooth, just generally speaking, too bad, go back to grade school and try again.