Inferior computer security threatens Continental Airlines! (part 2)

Vox Populi, Letters to the Editor
Thursday, 3 July 2003 [Editor's note: it will help if you first read part 1 of this series.] I THINK YOU'RE on to something here! What if evil h4x0rs are disrupting the power and telecommunications services at various Continental hubs by compromising certain SCADA (Secret Continental Airlines Digital Automaton) devices that the airline uses to control all its airport facilities and cleverly covering their tracks by making it appear to be weather related? You don't have to be a guy named r00t to know that any airline probably connects these devices to the Internet so they can easily monitor all systems for the comfort and safety of our flying public from anywhere in the world! John Hanson