OT: Here we go again ...

[Jack Berger]

I know this is a late reply - been gone for a week, but..

Dep,

No offense, but you're starting to sound like John Ashcroft or Richard
Clarke. Both have an agenda w/this, and are using this line as an
excuse for more govt. controls, snooping and imposing a police state
mentality on us, (as in US).

Mat,

Truth beknown, the majority of communications regarding a posible grid
problem, and being able to foresee/control/stop the cascading effects
are done via telephone calls between controls centers. I seriously
doubt the blaster worm had any measurable effect on the whole thing.
But it is a convenient scapegoat, and as noted above, the line used by
many to justify HSA and all furtherance of it's activities.

-jhb-
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From:  dep <dep at linuxandmain.com>

quoth Michael Hipp:
| http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030916/D7TJP93G0.html
|
| By TED BRIDIS
|
| WASHINGTON (AP) - Security researchers on Tuesday detected hackers
| distributing software to break into computers using flaws announced
| last week in some versions of Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows
| operating system.

i still highly suspect that the august 14 blackout here (and in much
of 
the country east of the mississippi and north of the south) is due to 
somebody cracking a windows box someplace.
-- 
dep
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From:  Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com>

They haven't drawn the conclusion that the initial outage was caused
by it, 
but there are reports (computerworld I believe) that MSBlast was
responsible
for clogging the network pipe between power stations used to avoid the 
cascading effect.  The cascade-avoidance system simply couldn't do
it's
job...

I agree that it probably STARTED there as well...