[geeks] Powa outage in NY. Blaster worm?

[Sandwich Maker]

"From: Brian Dunbar <Brian.Dunbar at plexus.com>
"
"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.

i don't know the details, alas.  but iirc it was a battleship [the
minnesota?  m-something], and the idea was the electronic warship.
sadly, they based their computer infrastructure on peecees running
windows.  the ship crashed - hard - before they even left the harbor.
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