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- ====================================================== From: dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ======================== From: Matthew Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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... _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
