I have read three stories today about how hackers are going to hack the FAA computers and make all the planes just crash into each other. Personally, I have more fear of Samuel L Jackson showing up, cause then you know some real shit is going to go down.

The United States’ air traffic control system is vulnerable to serious cyber attack, according to a watchdog report that detailed several recent security breaches that could have been used to sabotage mission-critical networks.

“In our opinion, unless effective action is taken quickly, it is likely to be a matter of when, not if, ATC systems encounter attacks that do serious harm to ATC operations,” the report warned (its emphasis).

Let me just say that aircraft have little boxes that keep us from smashing into each other, that are not controlled by ATC. I can tell you what the mission critical event would be, not getting release and having to see on the ground delayed for hours. Do you know what it is like to be confined into a small box with pissed off people from Jersey? And don’t get me started about the Air India flights . . . “Curry anyone?”

(Via The Register.)