Airport Security ftw!
I saw this in an airport a couple weeks ago. Sweet.
This photo was taken on June 14, 2007 using a Canon PowerShot S200.
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Seetwist, sshingler, FullyFunctnlPhil, steveh30, and 444 other people added this photo to their favorites.
equipeowen (71 months ago | reply)
Nice... Saw this on reddit.com your views should go through the roof.
Silveira Neto (71 months ago | reply)
hahhaahaha
millertime83 (71 months ago | reply)
too funny
Winfried Neessen (71 months ago | reply)
*rofl*
scottelliottdotcom (71 months ago | reply)
Which airport?
restless_exile (71 months ago | reply)
*lol*
VintFalken (71 months ago | reply)
LMAO! This is awesome!
JamesC4S (71 months ago | reply)
Is that AUS?
Looks like their plasma screen.
chodovski (71 months ago | reply)
XD
Dimplemonkey (71 months ago | reply)
tisk tisk tisk
Adcuz (71 months ago | reply)
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solracarevir (71 months ago | reply)
That is what happens when our airports rely on Windows. Very sad indeed. BUT FUNNY!!! lol
Chris Turner (71 months ago | reply)
wow!
Fathermadman (71 months ago | reply)
heh, wonder what else is open up on that computer? Wonder if they are using wide open wireless for their wifi network...
ucbrigade (71 months ago | reply)
Yikes!
kamie24 (71 months ago | reply)
You would think with all of the increased security taking place around the world they would protect their own systems, but I guess I thought differently...I had no clue airport technology could be so vulnerable...lol
sirbrett84 (71 months ago | reply)
Palm Springs, CA
ashley_dryden (71 months ago | reply)
Should have installed Linux ::shrugs::
daveynin (71 months ago | reply)
heh!
nocturnal1 (71 months ago | reply)
That is so awesome.
Christopher Woods (71 months ago | reply)
Haha, owned! Reminds me of the BSOD pictures at airports on their departure screens and crashed terminals at ATMs where you can't reboot them...
mosall [deleted] (71 months ago | reply)
pwned.
nion (71 months ago | reply)
alexsoto (71 months ago | reply)
damn looks very very bad...
Hitesh - delete me this is an old account (71 months ago | reply)
only really a problem if it is connected to the internet
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argash (71 months ago | reply)
Par for the course sadly
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mark.seymour (71 months ago | reply)
Very nice...
tardoclown (71 months ago | reply)
This is an obvious photochop. Look at how many flights are listed as "on time".
Jonny Pictures (71 months ago | reply)
I don't get why this is so funny. Is it because it runs windows? Hellooooo? Everything runs windows. The sys admin just needs to toggle the alert bubbles. Anybody who runs critical machines doesn't use "windows firewall" to secure the box. Further, antivirus software may well cause more popups in any graphical operating system. Don't get me wrong I'm not partial to Windows. Finally, this computer doesn't even need to be secure... its a kiosk with a big screen showing publicly available information - we don't need to secure these things as if it were Fort Knox. This has nothing to do with airport security... but so long as people are bored and want to flame, let the flames burn on.
MagnoUrbano (71 months ago | reply)
hahahaha
p858snake (71 months ago | reply)
"I don't get why this is so funny. Is it because it runs windows? Hellooooo? Everything runs windows. The sys admin just needs to toggle the alert bubbles. Anybody who runs critical machines doesn't use "windows firewall" to secure the box. Further, antivirus software may well cause more popups in any graphical operating system. Don't get me wrong I'm not partial to Windows. Finally, this computer doesn't even need to be secure... its a kiosk with a big screen showing publicly available information - we don't need to secure these things as if it were Fort Knox. This has nothing to do with airport security... but so long as people are bored and want to flame, let the flames burn on." <Its part of the corpate network, so everything should be secured incase a virus gets out, what would you prefer around an extra $80 for another lincease for the antivirus software or taking down all the computers to stop the virus transmitting/duplicating itself across the network?
bitswt02 (71 months ago | reply)
u'd think that the airport would spend its money on firewalls for its computers instead of risking all its computer networks fall to a virus...!
John Kittelsrud (71 months ago | reply)
As an IT guy if I knew that a system as going to be exposed to the public like this one was I'd turn that off. Then again it did make a good picture.
Silence99 (71 months ago | reply)
That is the greatest thing I have ever seen. Really makes me feel safe at the airport... ;)
skokerz (71 months ago | reply)
As an airport employee, I can assure you that these computers are NOT in any way connected to any computer networks or the internet. They are called FIDS displays, and are run by headless computers that each airline updates via a terminal that is separate from the rest of the network. This airports system just happens to run XP, as some of the newer systems do. At my airport, the system is DOS and SSH based.
Nothing to see here. Take your shit stirring elsewheres, please.
YuByungMan (71 months ago | reply)
I too am a airport employee and I have seen some old Windows NT based systems.
xmunos (71 months ago | reply)
If real, that's awesome!
Harrison / Peppery (71 months ago | reply)
@skokerz:
How could you update the headless PC remotely without the PC somehow being connected to the network?
Learn to proofread before commenting. Take your shit stirring comment elsewhere, please.
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Kwirky (71 months ago | reply)
I'm 99% certain this is Vancouver airport. If not, it's another airport running the same software, as the colors & typeface are identical.
Zlatko Unger (71 months ago | reply)
I was looking at this image on my phone while waiting for my parents at the airport ... hilarious
haha ... i looked at the lcds near the baggage claim in hopes of seeing something like this...
Gilbert Chan the XXXXI (71 months ago | reply)
Hey if it's Vancouver of CANADA, I doubt security is even needed :)
baseman79 (71 months ago | reply)
LOL^_^
myviolentsuicide (71 months ago | reply)
lol!!
Zane Perry (71 months ago | reply)
@joelanders42 usually when there is a firewall installed on a computer windows recognizes it and this error does not 'pop-up'. Same with anti-virus. Just let the people enjoy the irony. After the shit we put through in the security lines dealing with the TSA employees we need a good laugh.
andufo (71 months ago | reply)
LOL!
jorj_bush (71 months ago | reply)
sorry to disappoint guys...its fake..
pronoba (71 months ago | reply)
lol. Homeland "security" at its best....
Humanoide (71 months ago | reply)
If true, and it seems to be, that is really funny! It's always funny to see computer errors on big public displays...
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cebuguitarist (71 months ago | reply)
oh boy
lolbuntu (71 months ago | reply)
@ joelanders42
Likewise, no one thinks you are cool either.