Airport Security, or NOT!!!
Posted July 9th, 2007 by Alex Ion
What about this guys? How safe would you feel to board on a plane after you see this on the main screen of an airport? Sweet!
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July 9th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
This is obviously a photoshop. Not only is the authentic wording wrong on “No firewall is turned on”, but the error bubble would only display next to an (absent here) taskbar. Lastly, the computer controlling that sign wouldn’t need antivirus or a firewall, because it is almost certainly not connected to the internet and probably runs on Linux.
July 9th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
What if I cannot count?
ROFLMAO @ the wind0wz
July 10th, 2007 at 3:48 am
a nigger probably did that
July 10th, 2007 at 10:28 am
itsmee probably you’re true, but I still find it hilarious.
July 10th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
@ ShellsOnTheFloor
What the **** are talking about you dumbass prick… Do the world a favour and shut the **** up.
It is not photoshopped, the wording is 100% accurate, try it yourself, disable your firewall and see what pops up.
Secondly, the taskbar IS there, its hidden under the full screen application thats running, again try that for yourself, find a way to trigger an event that uses windows’s balloon notification and then run a full screen game or something, oh would you look at that, you can see it floating there.
Lastly, it would make sense to run on linux, considering its free, but the point is that windows has by far the largest support base, and it has a **** load more software designed for it, the application you see there is most probably a customized version of commercially available software, so it would most likely be run on windows.
So i say again, shut the **** up, get your head out of your ass and wake up you **** ****
Have a nice day all (not you shells… ******* muppet)
July 10th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
ShellsOnTheFloor: Wrong on all three counts.
1) The wording “no firewall is turned on” is exactly what Windows says in that situation
2) the message would still display if the taskbar was set to auto-hide, or if the “always on top” option was switched off
3) although the computer is probably not connected to the Internet, it would have a network connection to get the information on the flight times, and Windows doesn’t make a distinction between network connections that have gateways to the Internet and those that don’t. Therefore, it will recommend that a firewall is switched on.
Also, it probably doesn’t run Linux. What would be the point when an overwhelming majority of computers around the world run on Windows?
July 10th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
See, I have seen that happen before, at a ferry port. One was like that for a while, and 20 mins later it was a BSOD. Also, there were free wireless access points there, and lots of people on laptops.
July 10th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
actually the terminals don’t operate on linux, they run MSWindows 98-XP dependent upon where in the nation they are, the farther to the south the lower the OS xD
lol, and since when is 8.0 not correct?
July 10th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
This is probably a photoshopped image. Most major industrial computers run custom-tailored software ad programs specifically programmed for the task the said computer would undertake. So any computer that would be presenting departure and arrival times within an airport would be running such a piece of software.
July 11th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
King Kong, thats not true. i have seen plenty of goofs like this, and evidence of windows where it “supposedly” dosnt belong.
i work at shoprite, all the registers have a linux op system, except for our self check registers.
i have seen them be rebooted and they load win2000.
also, idk if anybody else has seen it, but sometimes on “the tv guide channel” you can see all types of screwups.
example; a mouse pointer in the middle of the screen.
July 12th, 2007 at 1:23 am
C’mon guys, I’ll give the airport IT guys the benefit of the doubt that they are smart enough to use commercial firewalls, which probably disable the windows one.
July 12th, 2007 at 7:56 am
To all of you that think this is fake or photoshop:
It may be, but most likely it is real. You may find it alarming, but most kiosk-type software you see nowdays is just a windows server running third party software.
The fact that the pop-up appeared over the top application (in this case, the schedule display software) means that the IT person who set the computer up did not “Change the way Security Center notifies me” in the XP security center in control panel.
It is an easy step to overlook for weekend warriors and 12 year old nephews, but at this level (enterprise public transportation) it’s a major bush-league mistake.
That company should lose the contract for hiring inept people.
July 12th, 2007 at 8:22 am
I’ve seen this sort of thing all over the place, especially on TV stations real late at night. Never seen this on an Airport system though. Either way, its not a question of safety. This is just a flight information system. If you had any doubts about the data being displayed, you could simply inquire at the flight vendor’s desk for verified flight data. Also, Windows XP (thankfully) is not in any vital portion of an aircraft. Aside from possibly running your in-flight entertainment system usually found in the headrest of the seat in front of you, that’s as far as Windows comes to controlling the various instrumentation and mechanical devices aboard a modern aircraft.
July 12th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
airports do use windows i fly all the time a few times when they were setting up new machines and displays i had clearly seen a windows desktop
July 14th, 2007 at 1:17 am
Curtis Kline is right. I would feel 100% safe if I saw something like this. A airport would not be stupid enough to use a windows based system on an airplane. Especially with the risk of seeing “the blue screen of death” (quite ironic that if one saw that while on a plane, it would result in death)
This picture is most likely real, it is just a poor part on the airport IT department. They most likely have some type of commercial firewall program. (It would be stupid to use Windows Firewall.)
July 22nd, 2007 at 4:15 am
I worked for United Airlines for most of last year as an upgrade technician for their airport systems. All of the people are correct in assuming that all of the kiosks, check-in computers, and information displays are Windows operated. Most of the systems in an airport are firewall protected, even though they are on a completely isolated LAN, especially the e-FIDs (electronic Flight Information Directories). What you’re seeing here could be completely possible at MOST airports in the United States.
July 23rd, 2007 at 3:11 am
haha thats hella funny, but was even more funny is the people bashing on “ShellsOnTheFloor”
August 1st, 2007 at 12:39 am
well he deserves it
if you dont know what youre typing about dont type like you do
August 1st, 2007 at 12:56 am
Lol at all you guys commenting on the OSes running on AIrport/Airplane systems. Please, get a fucking clue before you venture out into the big scary Internet. I think only ShellsOnTheFloor actually made any sense.