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Y2K: The New Year’s Disaster That Wasn’t

Unwritten Record

Governments and businesses around the world proactively prepared their computer systems to seamlessly to the year 2000 rather than travel back to 1900. The Air Force has many Military Working Dogs. This smooth transition to the 21st century wasn’t mere luck or an indication that our concerns were misplaced.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

” The event, which was captured on video and also reported in Wired magazine, sent a message to the automotive industry. CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. The airline industry wrote it off as an unlikely scenario.