The aircraft might not be flying, but the certificate has gone on vacation
Information is not forthcoming from this screen
BORK!BORK!BORK! We still don't know what caused the air traffic control mayhem in the UK in early September, but one information board at Luton Airport appears to have gone out in sympathy.
Spotted by Register reader Mark, the digital sign usually shows passenger information. Today, however, it looks like either the system clock is wrong or someone has forgotten to renew a server certificate.
It's not the usual "DNS. It's always DNS," but not far off.
For those blissfully unaware, the UK's air traffic control system has had a bad week. A glitch in National Air Traffic Services (NATS) resulted in thousands of flight cancellations and travel disruption for around 330,000 passengers. And it appears whoever is running this information board at Luton has done the computing equivalent of "anything you can do I can do better."
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