3 countries have had their entire airline tracking system go down. What is going on?

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[–]Alienhunter 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Zero day glitch.

Using the same software and having the same problem.

Malicious hacking.

Hard to say.

I wouldn't share the information with the public were I in their position because well frankly, it's a security risk.

Most likely, flight tracking is all done via the same basic system. And it either had a glitch that was common across them, or there was malicious activity. Any clue what is the likely cause? None. Merely speculation.

The disruption betrays the need for robust backup systems.

[–]catfishrising 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Just saw on Slashdot, the problem yesterday was caused by a corrupted database file.

https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/01/12/063246/a-corrupt-file-led-to-the-faa-ground-stoppage

[–]iamonlyoneman 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

All the IT people died from coof

[–]cons_nc 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

We're all working from home with dwindling work ethic

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Windows update, innit.

Seriously, though, that's such an easy thing for governments to do if they want to stop someone from traveling without making it obvious.

If it's someone important traveling from the Philippines to USA/Canada or vice versa they are likely very rich and likely not a very nice person.

[–]Canbot[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Why 3 countries? Did it not work at all?

[–]SoCo 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I saw an article just recently trying to say the entire US outage was due to a corrupted database file. It seemed quite a dubious excuse.

[–]Canbot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah, all the excuses they give are clearly lies. The question is what are they hiding?

[–]WoodyWoodPecker 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Microsoft Access Database tried to divide by zero: https://medium.com/dataseries/when-smart-ships-divide-by-zer0-uss-yorktown-4e53837f75b2 https://www.vice.com/en/article/3dk58b/why-were-not-allowed-to-divide-by-zero

[–]Canbot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why now? Why these 3 countries?

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Decentralize all the things.

[–]Alphix 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Probably the solar flares.

[–]Bonn1770 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What is going on? I've heard this right from a Southwest Airline employee about the massive fight cancellations last Christmas: managerial incompetence. Southwest for example has been using software from the 1990s to run their scheduling and luggage tracking. The rest is done on paper. Their systems should have been updated decades ago but management through greed (they don't want to pay for upgrades) and incompetence caused the perfect storm. Of course this could all be on purpose as they don't want the average peasant like you and me to be able to move around freely (which is why they push electric cars that have a remote kill switch) and only the "elite" get to jet around in private jets while lecturing us about pollution.

[–]cons_nc 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Pete got caught sticking his wee-wee in the USB ports again.

[–]Canbot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Clearly a design flaw. Why is he going country to country doing that?

[–]cons_nc 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

DickDiversity

[–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

The IT Department hires for affirmative action quotas and not for the best candidate.

[–]Canbot[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

All 3 countries. All within a month. And the results happened almost at the same time.

Got to be more to it.

And why lie about what happened?

[–]Alphix 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's the solar flares, they emit EMPs that disrupt satellites and other electromagnetic systems, including mammalian central nervous systems.

[–]Canbot[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Why was every system not effected? Why is no one reporting on the solat flairs? Why would they lie about it?

[–]Alphix 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Because a big solar flare is going to end our technological civilization pretty soon, and they don't want people looking too closely at that, since they know there's nothing anybody can do about it, and it spells the doom of most people. Can you imagine if Joe Average realized there's 15 years left, AT BEST, to our way of life?

Why every system wasn't affected? Because aviation relies very much on satellites, and it depends on the position of the satellites in relationship to the Sun, and every system has different vulnerability points and levels, but yeah it might be cyber-warfare after all. I don't KNOW FOR SURE it was solar flares. We did enter into a period of intense flaring, and it was flaring hard on the day this happened.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

To cover it up and hope CNN doesn't go after them for ratings.