A government computer system outage that canceled more than 1,200 flights and delayed thousands of other planes had little impact Wednesday on Fort Wayne International Airport.
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has expressed shock over the technology breakdown of the Bimodal Verification Accreditation (BVA) system. African Examiner reports the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been experiencing technical challenges in the use of the BVA device to capture voters in some […]
i don t know how much i want to go into the complete technology breakdown on sort of ciphering emails or parsing call detail records, but here s what i think they were doing. straight up what they were doing is trying to match names. when you look at the to and the from, then you go to the call detail records, you can start to winnow down people others are talking to the most and communicating with the most. you don t need the internals, that being the exact communication. you don t need the script from the emails or the exact language being used on the phone, which is very hard to get anyway, that s special types of equipment. but again it was really interesting to me to see how they were trying to combine technologies to find the touch points in the network and yoz that to further any type of investigation of where those leaks were. that s my best guess. i ve done this a little bit in the past, but that s my best guess on it. clint, your thoughts on what was going on as well as the
frank palloone and joe barton going at each other, calling there s a monkey court. are these guys going after each other, scoring political points, are we learning anything about what went wrong here? reporter: i think it s a bit of both. they were talking about private circumstance monkey court business. in the big picture, you ve got 50-some odd companies who are contractors, only a few represented on the hill. one company, cgi, blames another company, qssi, for the big problem. qssi blames the federal government, the centers of medicare and medicaid services for putting in a late change that created a bottleneck. this is clearly a political issue. also very technical. and it s something a congressional committee, as a whole, isn t equipped to handle very well without a ton of staff to work on. so you get a lot of people veering off, asking policy questions to companies here to talk about a technology
they are attaching the stimulus label to this knowing there is not a lot of appear ties in america for more spending of this nature. and how republican whip is saying about it well, would have the quote. but he talks about blinding throwing darts at the bull and hoping for a bull s eye is not economic leadership. there is a better way. forgive the technology breakdown. no problem, mike. with the president in wisconsin. they lost 155,000 jobs there. it really hit the state hard. mike, thank you very much. with us on the set to talk about this is personal finance expert jordan goodman, the author of fast profits in hard times. we could use a few of those. guest: yes. $50 billion in government structure for infrastructure,