Re: [cta@hcsin.net: Re: CNN: 'Explores Possibility that Power Outage is Related to Internet Worm']

2003-08-27 Thread Ben Laurie
Eric Murray wrote: Food for thought and grounds for further research: - Forwarded message from Bernie, CTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: bugtraq.list-id.securityfocus.com List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [cta@hcsin.net: Re: CNN: 'Explores Possibility that Power Outage is Related to Internet Worm']

2003-08-27 Thread Sunder
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Re: [cta@hcsin.net: Re: CNN: 'Explores Possibility that Power Outage is Related to Internet Worm']

2003-08-18 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 01:50 PM 8/17/03 -0400, Sunder wrote: Techie: It's outdated, it will collapse. Sometimes its easier to ask forgiveness after than to ask for permission before. Sometimes you have to let the system crash so others see its weakness. Ca often runs within a few percent of available juice during

Re: [cta@hcsin.net: Re: CNN: 'Explores Possibility that Power Outage is Related to Internet Worm']

2003-08-17 Thread Thomas Shaddack
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: Somehow I have difficulty believing the these people could be so totally lame as to be running mission-critical stuff like this on windoze. Please say it isn't true. The Microsoft salesmen know the coercive sales tactics. The clients' well-being

Re: [cta@hcsin.net: Re: CNN: 'Explores Possibility that Power Outage is Related to Internet Worm']

2003-08-17 Thread Sunder
As you probably know by now, there was no lightnight strike and the failure did not start at Nigara. As for our city's reptile of a Mayor he claimed power would be back on in queens by 11pm. It wasn't on until 6am Friday. On Friday night there were still areas that were down in lower Manhattan.

Re: [cta@hcsin.net: Re: CNN: 'Explores Possibility that Power Outage is Related to Internet Worm']

2003-08-16 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: Somehow I have difficulty believing the these people could be so totally lame as to be running mission-critical stuff like this on windoze. Please say it isn't true. it's scary just how much mission-critical stuff runs on windows. i'll confess right

Re: [cta@hcsin.net: Re: CNN: 'Explores Possibility that Power Outage is Related to Internet Worm']

2003-08-16 Thread John Young
Are you suggesting the outage was caused by carbon filaments rocketed across transmission lines? If that was done at several points in the grid it would account for the various finger-pointing to incidents which are claimed to have started the usual-suspect cascade of the usual-suspect antiquated

Re: [cta@hcsin.net: Re: CNN: 'Explores Possibility that Power Outage is Related to Internet Worm']

2003-08-16 Thread Harmon Seaver
Somehow I have difficulty believing the these people could be so totally lame as to be running mission-critical stuff like this on windoze. Please say it isn't true. Is the military also now dependant on windoze? Bizarre, absolutely bizarre. And here I thought it was probably caused by people

Re: [cta@hcsin.net: Re: CNN: 'Explores Possibility that Power Outage is Related to Internet Worm']

2003-08-16 Thread Roy M. Silvernail
On Friday 15 August 2003 22:29, Chris Kuethe wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: Somehow I have difficulty believing the these people could be so totally lame as to be running mission-critical stuff like this on windoze. Please say it isn't true. it's scary just how much

[cta@hcsin.net: Re: CNN: 'Explores Possibility that Power Outage is Related to Internet Worm']

2003-08-15 Thread Eric Murray
Food for thought and grounds for further research: - Forwarded message from Bernie, CTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: bugtraq.list-id.securityfocus.com List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL