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... On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 06:10:28 -0400 dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > Dotcoms were based on the mathematical idea that if you multiply zero by > a sufficiently large number, you've got something. -- Douglas Adams > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eisgr.com/ Enterprise Information Systems * Network Server Appliances * Network Consulting, Integration & Support * Web Integration and E-Business _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
