Tracking the blackout bug

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:18:15 +0100
From: Goncalo <goncalo () mail eunet pt>
Subject: For IP: Tracking the blackout bug
To: dave () farber net


Hello.

A very interesting reading about the bug that in the
end caused the August 14th northeastern blackout.

For IP if you like.

Regards
Goncalo

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http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8412

A number of factors and failings came together to make the
August 14th northeastern blackout the worst outage in North
American history. One of them was buried in a massive piece
of software compiled from four million lines of C code and
running on an energy management computer in Ohio.

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