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AntiCoup2K4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 05:54 PM
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Worm virus to blame for East Coast blackout?
Someone on ABC just claimed the blackout was due to a "software failure" that they apparently have not located yet. Could the latest Windows hack have brought down the grid?




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Brian Sweat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 06:01 PM
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1. Not likely
I doubt any of the critical elements of the grid are computer automated and even if they are it is highly unlikely that they are running Windows. MVS maybe, but now Windows.
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sugus Donating Member (115 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 06:10 PM
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2. Skynet will get the control this night. Terminators are in campaign
If you have seen Terminator III, and you remenber Terminator wants to be governor of California and president of USA, he need control energy. A virus inoculated in the control system is the method used in the film.

Do you remember the movie where the president to hide relations with other women to the public, decided to declare war against Albany?

3 days later war in Kosovo began, very close to Albany
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Shanty Oilish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 06:21 PM
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3. Worm in the Apple?
Wonder what the headline would be... :think:
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AntiCoup2K4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 06:32 PM
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4. "Go ahead, bite the Big Apple. Don't mind the maggots...."


Sha-dooby!
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rosalux Donating Member (27 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 06:53 PM
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5. east coast energy
Someone on NBC was quick to defend all the deregulation of energy that took place in the last decade.
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Pathwalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 07:00 PM
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6. CBS: Canadian PM says lightning struck the Niagra power grid plant.
Don't know if that's true, it's just what I heard. This thing is as far west as Lansing Michigan, and it's 90 degrees. Two miles north of Lansing, all is fine.
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