re: All flights in US grounded due to FAA computer outage

I remember kids using the term at summer camp as slang for “forget that” That was late 1990’s.

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I've never seen it written Ctrl+Alt+Del until maybe late 2000s.

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I had old IBM manuals from the 80s and 90s that show Ctrl+Alt+Del. I'm not sure what systems you were working on but it's been the standard since it was created.

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US is essentially a third world country at this point.

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You must not have ever been to a third world country.

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They will one day be hacking and controlling our cars, planes and trains.

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And our nuclear arsenal uses systems that were used in the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s with 8 inch floppy drives, drum hard drives, and the best IBM computers of the day.

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In a lot of ways, stuff like this is why they don’t change over those systems. They’re like old cars, so simple and so insulated that they’re almost impossible to crash or hack.

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We continue to look into the cause of the initial problem

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Since it was an overnight outage...I'm wondering if it was a failed system update.

My initial thoughts were cyber attack but you'd think the attack would be timed for peak traffic.

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pretty sure this is how it was written in the beginning.

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No. It has always been Ctrl Alt Del.

Here you go, read this:

Control-Alt-Delete

from your link

by pressing the Delete key while holding the Control and Alt keys: Ctrl+Alt+Delete

suggested switching the key combination to Ctrl+Alt+Del as a safety measure

to Windows NT logon procedures ("Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to log on")

keeps it from turning political.