[CLUE-Talk] Windows virus affect nuclear plants!!

[Timothy C. Klein]

Ok, repeat after me:

Thou shalt *not* run windows software at the nuclear power plant.

It seems so simple -- if a consequence of a computer crash could be a
reactor melt down, you don't want MS within 100 yards of the building!
And this doesn't sound like a desktop system -- it was critical safety
computers.

Yikes!

* Kevin Cullis (kevincu at orci.com) wrote:
> This is disturbing:
> 
> The Slammer worm penetrated a private computer network at Ohio's
> Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in January and disabled a safety
> monitoring system for nearly five hours, despite a belief by plant
> personnel that the network was protected by a firewall, SecurityFocus
> has learned. 
> 
> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/6767
> 
> Not that I'm against nuclear power, but using Windows in a nuclear power
> plant.
> 
> Kevin
> 
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