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Read the news at http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/09/09/1526221.shtml?tid=2
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Last Thursday's NewsForge report about power grid security prompted an outpouring of response from readers, industry experts, and government officials. Experts hastened to point out that the grid is robust and relatively immune to hacker attack even as attention focused on the role that a suspiciously frozen computer in the control room of grid operator FirstEnergy played in the Aug. 14 blackout that left 50 million people without power.
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I disagree that worm caused it...it cud be a mere accident that it happened coincidently with worm.



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I don't believe it had anything to do with the blackout. I believe it was due to either human error or aging equipment that should have been repaired and/or replaced a long time ago.



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well ya i think that was some human mistake or misjudgement..



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...then the general thinking is it wasn't Blaster worm. Smile



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may be..



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the blaster worm and the worm was just a coincidence. next we'll have people concluding that worms were behing JFK Smile
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the blaster worm and the worm was just a coincidence. next we'll have people concluding that worms were behing JFK Smile

No, no, no! If you want to blame that on somebody...North Korea. Smile



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lol, or aliens?
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lol, or aliens?

No, North Korea...because we assassinated a N. Korean special forces general or something just one or two months before Kennedy was shot in Texas.



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or maybe the russians?
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or maybe the russians?

No way...I don't think it was the KGB.



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