full-disclosure - Reuters: Power Outage Not Internet Worm-Related

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Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20030818142127.07b80a68@209.112.4.2>
From: mike at sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
Subject: Reuters: Power Outage Not Internet
  Worm-Related

At 01:47 PM 18/08/2003 -0400, Jason Sloderbeck wrote:

>"it is 'highly unlikely' that the process control computers behind 
>critical infrastructure like power in the United States would run on the 
>Windows operating system."

<begin PURE SPECULATION>
One way it might be related is if the "alarms that were ignored" were 
supposed to be displayed on a windows workstation which was then taken out 
by the worm.
</end PURE SPECULATION>

         ---Mike