Computer gremlins, confusion preceded big blackout

The Globe and Mail ^ | 9/4/03 | Associated Press

[menotyu]

Anything is possible, how many laptops were "misplaced" at Langley a few years ago?

[backhoe]

[flamefront]

Yeah, sure. Why believe and propagate his vested interested spin, _Jim?

We will see when the reports are finished.

Consider at the FirstEnergy nuclear plants vulnerability described earlier:

The government said FirstEnergy Nuclear determined that a contractor had established an unprotected high-speed computer connection to its corporate network that allowed the "Slammer" infection to spread internally. The utility also had failed to install a corrective software patch from Microsoft Corp. that had been available since July 2002.

[_Jim]

We 'beat' this horse to death aleady. THOSE systems were simply performance (bean-counter) non-safety related machines ...