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Re: Ready to get your federal computer license?
From: William Warren <hescominsoon () emmanuelcomputerconsulting com>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:16:58 -0400
On 8/28/2009 6:11 PM, Peter Beckman wrote:
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Hiers, David wrote:Governments already license stock brokers, pilots, commercial drivers, accountants, engineers, all sorts of people whose mistakes can be measured in the loss of hundreds of lives and millions of dollars."'The power company allowed their network security to be comprimised by asingle Windows computer connected to the Internet in the main control facility, so we unplugged the entire Internet to mitigate the attack,' said Senator Rockefeller, the author of the bill that enabled thePresident to take swift action after an unknown hacker used the Internetto break into Brominion Power's main control facility and turn off thepower to the entire East Coast. 'It will remain unplugged and nobody in the US will be allowed to connect to the Internet until the power is backon and this hacker is brought to justice.' Authorities are having a difficult time locating the hacker due to the unavailability of the Internet and electricity, and cannot communicatewith lawmakers via traditional means due to the outage. A formal requestto turn the power and Internet back on was sent on a pony earlier this afternoon to lawmakers in DC." Can't wait. Beckman--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy beckman () angryox com http://www.angryox.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Michael Airhart (Aug 31)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Eric Brunner-Williams (Aug 30)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Justin Shore (Aug 31)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 31)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Reese (Aug 31)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Steven M. Bellovin (Aug 31)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Reese (Aug 31)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Eric Brunner-Williams (Aug 31)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? David Hiers (Aug 31)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? J.D. Falk (Aug 31)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Peter Beckman (Aug 31)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Jack Bates (Aug 31)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? AMuse (Aug 31)
- RE: Ready to get your federal computer license? Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc) (Aug 31)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 31)
- Re: Ready to get your federal computer license? David Hiers (Aug 31)