To what are you referring? I'm pretty skeptical of mainstream media FYI.
On Monday, September 29, 2014, Mike Hammett via Af <af@afmug.com
<mailto:af@afmug.com>> wrote:
Do you live under a bridge?
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*From: *"Jason McKemie via Af" <af@afmug.com
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*To: *af@afmug.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','af@afmug.com');>
*Sent: *Monday, September 29, 2014 7:23:11 PM
*Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Arson attack on FAA datacenter
Little bit of haterism going on here, he's one of the better ones
IMO. Does he not hang out upstate enough for you guys?
On Monday, September 29, 2014, Mike Hammett via Af <af@afmug.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','af@afmug.com');>> wrote:
+1
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*From: *"George Skorup (Cyber Broadcasting) via Af" <af@afmug.com>
*To: *af@afmug.com
*Sent: *Monday, September 29, 2014 5:07:43 PM
*Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Arson attack on FAA datacenter
Damn, why couldn't it be Durbin that slit his own throat.
On 9/29/2014 5:04 PM, That One Guy via Af wrote:
im going with isis on this
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Nate Burke via Af
<af@afmug.com> wrote:
This is only a couple miles from our office. They had
all the local news choppers up in the air over it on
Friday. I was surprised that it didn't garner more
national coverage. I guess since it wasn't the terror
threat of the day, it didn't get any traction. Just a
disgruntled employee. Even the first reports said it
was not a terrorist act.
On 9/29/2014 4:36 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account)
via Af wrote:
Oh yeah,
I'm in Chicago for a few days. Flew in on
thursday before this happened. My wife flew in
on Saturday and ended up with a nasty delay in MSP
since there were very very few flights flying into
the affected area, which basically includes both
chicago airports, and the two airports up in
wisconsin. Thousands of flights cancelled over the
last couple of days.
That's the big news here.
-forrest
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Eric Kuhnke via
Af <af@afmug.com> wrote:
Anyone see this?
http://posttrib.suntimes.com/30167722-537/flight-delays-to-continue-after-arson.html#.VCnNuOeXtGE
http://www.metafilter.com/143174/ATCSCC-ADVZY-020-DCC-ZAU-09-26-2014-ZAU-GROUND-STOP
On Friday, ATCSCC Advisory 20 of 26-Sep-2014
went out. When operators, controllers and
airport managers saw the title, a gasp of
disbelief was heard. The problem was simple
enough to state in three words, and complex
enough to cancel thousand of flights and cost
hundred of millions of dollars: ZAU ATC ZERO
<http://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_otherdis.jsp?advn=20&adv_date=09262014&facId=DCC/ZAU&title=ZAU+GROUND+STOP&titleDate=09/26/14>.
ZAU
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Air_Route_Traffic_Control_Center>
is the call sign of the Chicago Air Rout
Traffic Control Center (ARTCC), which covers
<http://www.fly.faa.gov/Information/west/zau/zau.htm>
northern Illinois and Indiana, southern
Wisconsin, western Iowa, and south eastern
Michigan. There are two "sides" at an ARTCC.
ZAU-LO handed traffic destined for airports in
the covered area, ZAU-HI handled traffic
overflying. Both were amongst the busiest in
the country. ZAU-HI was busy with traffic from
the east to west, as well as European traffic
heading to Houston and Dallas-FW, ZAU-LO had
to feed in traffic from airports like GYY
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary/Chicago_International_Airport>,
MKE
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Mitchell_International_Airport>,
RFD
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Rockford_International_Airport>,
PIA
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Wayne_A._Downing_Peoria_International_Airport>,
and the two busiest airports in the area;
Chicago Midway International
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Midway_International_Airport>
and O'Hare International
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Hare_International_Airport>,
one of the busiest airports in the world.
On Friday morning, Brian Howard, a contract
employee of the FAA and holding full
credentials to the ZAU datacenters, set a fire
in the telecom room, destroying 23 of the 29
<http://posttrib.suntimes.com/30167722-537/flight-delays-to-continue-after-arson.html>
rack and disconnecting all the controller
stations from the associated radars and radio
transmitters needed to watch and guide traffic
through the busy sector. As the consoles
dropped offline, the ZAU duty manager had no
choice -- they called ZZZ, the FAA command
center
<http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/usmap.jsp> and
reported ATC ZERO -- no controllers available,
control center offline.
--
All parts should go together without forcing. You must
remember that the parts you are reassembling were
disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them
together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do
not use a hammer. -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925
