[geeks] Powa outage in NY. Blaster worm?

[Brian Dunbar]

adh at an.bradford.ma.us [mailto:adh at an.bradford.ma.us] on Friday, August 15,
2003 7:41 AM said;

> "From: Andrew Weiss <ajwdsp at cloud9.net>
> "seems like Windows was running that system with that 
> "nice viral shutdown... stupid stupid stupid...

> hey - if it's good enough for the u.s. navy...

That would surprise me if so.  The engineers running the power plants at
CP&L (North Carolina) were using VAX to control their plants and were (IIRC)
against anything else for reliability reasons.  That _was_ over a decade
ago, however.

~brian