| ▲ | andrewgioia 7 hours ago |
| Does anyone have any insight on this? Currently at LGA and they’re continuing boarding procedures, but they’re not giving us any updates otherwise. |
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| ▲ | abnry 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Radar outage: https://www.weather.gov/afc/radaroutage |
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| ▲ | 1970-01-01 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | A national radar outage would do it. This would be a bigger story. Everyone needs it to forecast. However it doesn't seem to actually be offline. So I don't think it was a very long outage if it did go down. | | |
| ▲ | ddtaylor 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | How do a bunch of separate radars all go down at the same time? Aren't they spread around the US? | | | |
| ▲ | gscott 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The floppy disk upgrade went wrong | | | |
| ▲ | Aperocky 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | weather radar still works for weather channels.. |
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| ▲ | O5vYtytb 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I can still access NOAA radars just fine. | |
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| ▲ | micah94 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Homeland Security saying "telecommunications" outage. But nothing more at this point... |
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| ▲ | jmclnx 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I think I remember seeing an article here about air traffic controller systems moving off of 3.5" diskettes. Related ? |
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| ▲ | 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | [deleted] | |
| ▲ | neko_ranger 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | "upgrade to cds. make no mistakes" | |
| ▲ | gosub100 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | No, my guess is cyber attack from a state we've been making false accusations against. | | |
| ▲ | junga 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Which one? | | | |
| ▲ | ashdksnndck 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Can you fill in the blanks here? My attempt: "China would never spy on us, but because of the implication they would put 50k of our citizens currently in the air in mortal danger"? | | |
| ▲ | thephyber 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's not a credible thesis, at least not given the info we have. Tier 1 cyber enemies would have done something more subtle (so as not to trigger a kinetic warfare response or a response in kind) or something so obvious that they announce it with a declaration of war. It's far more likely that the creaky old civilian radar infra has problems or some old single point of failure (maybe an old mainframe) has/had downtime. There are 3 widely rumored causes of this FAA outage (with seemingly no evidence) related to projects that the Feds were already working on making: (1) an AI air traffic controller assistant, (2) migration to something newer than 1970s floppy disk tech, (3) migration away from radar to GPS for controllers). All of these are more likely than a foreign cyber team attacking FAA systems in this way. |
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| ▲ | GolfPopper 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | So, "We have met the enemy and he is us?" |
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