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"Data storm" blamed for nuclear-plant shutdown
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-05-18

The U.S. House of Representative's Committee on Homeland Security called this week for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to further investigate the cause of excessive network traffic that shut down an Alabama nuclear plant.

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Re: Re: "Data storm" blamed for nuclear-plant shutdown 2007-05-29
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Allow me restate. A properly secured and engineered control system is very difficult to break into from the public domain. If it were trivial, the toilets wouldn't flush, the lights wouldn't stay on, our food would be suspect and travel (anywhere) would be atrocious.

THAT said, in a test enviro...

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