I wish I had some mod points to mod parent up. I would also suggest they remove the bureaucracy involved in the C&A and pen testing phases. Anyone who's ever been a part of the process can clearly see what little value is added against APT.

I guess those 9 year old kids in China took the term jail break....literally.

The real offence here is horrible taste in music!

ESX-I ftw. Ignore any recommendations for VM Player/Workstation, you'll lose a lot of resources to system operating system over head. I built a ESX-i server for less than $200 bucks 16GB of ram with Phenom II 945. This included 3TB of storage and an Antec case. On this set up I virtualize 45-50 OS's simultaneously with no problems.

Because that would require common sense and competence.

The notion of having a single point of failure "security" device contradicts one of the primary foundations of security principle: Defense In Depth. Multiple layers of security is essential in safe guarding your systems, placing them all one one unit is nothing short of moronic.

The fear of being subjected to pasty hairy man boobs just might get the operations team at the FAA to get off their asses and do their job.

As a security engineer(CISSP&CSSLP) with several years of experience in C&A and pen testing, I must say that the results aren't a surprise by any means. What I DO find disturbing is the amount of detail provided in a public report given the fact that the FAA has yet to fully apply it's remediation strategies for the vulnerabilities identified. Is there any info as to what tools they used for app testing? My experience shows that tools such as App Detective and Web Inspect actually inflate the number of findings. This is due to the fact that the applications identify vulnerabilities by instance and not by category/type.

If you already have a data plan for your mobile phone then give this application a try: http://www.wmwifirouter.com/ It will turn your cell phone into a Access point. I use this application all the time when i'm on the road or when my connection goes down at home.

that I found this article to be quite *enlightening* I need to go to bed.

couldn't figure out why the darn thing kept blowing itself up....