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Tracking the blackout bug
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-04-07

A number of factors and failings came together to make the August 14th northeastern blackout the worst outage in North American history. One of them was buried in a massive piece of software compiled from four million lines of C code and running on an energy management computer in Ohio.

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Tracking the blackout bug 2004-04-14
Anonymous
I'm glad to see a follow-up on this story. Haven't seen much about it elsewhere since the blackout happened.

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