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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
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Tracking the blackout bug 2006-02-14
Azag
I've read every reason and report but none are the "real" truth. The truth is the blackout was the direct or indirect result of the largest coronal mass discharge ever recorded falling right around the time of blackout which if know to science to cause everything from fried satellites and radio/communcations interferance to power grid failure. At the time this was the biggest radiation discharge / solar wind from the sun on record and this can be easily cross referanced with a search engine to prove I'm right but no one put the pieces together or connected dots as it were execpt probably US/Canadian govt's since telling the public this is the real cause would only scare the ignorant masses to panic it would be suppressed opting for a more safe mundane reason would cover the bases of any probes and when in doubt they make shit up. Nope your right though not MSBlast worm but the truth I say is still stranger than the fiction being spoon fed us by media and govt. This was not an accident of man it was an unavoidable freak of nature which would scare the public if known since there is nothing we can do currently to build up the earth's magnetosphere even if we wanted to protect ourselves and if it weer possible who knows what the consquences of altering it would have on life forms on the planet ..most probable would be killing many millions of fragile members of certain species at best. It would take a big electro magnet indeed though or an all powerful one! hehe. Do some checking you will find I am not nuts and have very good reason to say this stuff just google the sun's radiation index (or whatever it was called...bad memory looking for link but I know thaere is a site that does nothing but watch the sun and report science stats onb it daily, so just do a "google" if your interest is peaked.) Software bug my a$$! show me the code and/or at least the code line and how to reproduce this bug in software which no one has access to except corp. or gov't! Okay even if a bug were to exist this is an on proveable thing since not all bugs show themselves on systems even with close to or similar OS and hardware and enviromental/config variables so we can not tell if this is true but I can tell it is a friggin fact the solar radiation was ripping through the magnetoshpere/atmosphere at the time of blackout and this was to closde to be a coincedence so prove me wrong.

contact:

vxchaos--at--gmail.com

For a real discussion or proof of what happened and/or if you found my "theory" to be factual or helpful in some way. This is not a =joke and I am not some stupid "kiddiot" teenager so only serious discussions would be answered, when I have time.

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