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Slammer worm crashed Ohio nuke plant network
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-08-19

The Slammer worm penetrated a private computer network at Ohio's Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in January and disabled a safety monitoring system for nearly five hours, despite a belief by plant personnel that the network was protected by a firewall, SecurityFocus has learned.

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Anonymous Geek
Try OpenBSD instead, I still wouldn't be 100% happy with RedHat or similar, unless I was confident I could rip the guts out of it.

Either way such mission critical systems should NEVER be run using Operating Systems which have as many holes as swiss cheese (you know who you are).

After more thought I would be much happier with QNX even.

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