Re: Reuters: Power Outage Not Internet Worm-Related

[Mike Tancsa <mike () sentex net>]

At 01:47 PM 18/08/2003 -0400, Jason Sloderbeck wrote:

> "it is 'highly unlikely' that the process control computers behind 
> critical infrastructure like power in the United States would run on the 
> Windows operating system."

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One way it might be related is if the "alarms that were ignored" were 
supposed to be displayed on a windows workstation which was then taken out 
by the worm.
</end PURE SPECULATION>

        ---Mike 

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