[driftdiver]

not this hogwash again, how many times is this crash going to be blamed on malware????

[Moonman62]

A corrupted USB stick contributed to Spain's worst air disaster on record, according to a 12,000-page report cited by the Spanish newspaper El Pais and USA Today.

That's more pages that the Obamacare bill. Reports don't need to be anywhere near that long unless they are intended to obfuscate and confuse.

[Da Coyote]

I will never knowingly get on any aircraft that contains microsoft products.

And this is NOT a joke.

Microsoft products, however, are.

[Clay Moore]

Wow, it must be fun going into one of those tricky drop over the mountain, power it towards the earth, pull full flaps, and 5mph over stall get the BSOD!

[ltc8k6]

Just to be clear, the computer that was infected was not on the plane, and had nothing to do with controlling or flying the plane.

[Steely Tom]

I know someone who works for a large utility. This person told me that they are not allowed to transfer any information from a PC to any piece of "functional equipment" (that is, hardware that's actually controlling the power-generation equipment, be it generation, metering, monitoring, or distribution) via memory stick, or by any other means (DVD, CD-ROM, magnetic disk, anything). The only way they can put information that originated within a computer that's attached to the internet into a piece of functional equipment is by typing that information in at a keyboard. That's it.