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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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Microsoft Windows in Mission Critical Environments 2003-08-27
Anonymous
I agree with "stop using microsoft...and do your job properly."

I only design analog and OS-less digital systems.

They never get viruses, and they can even instantly recover

from a pile of screws dumped on the motherboard!

First there was the nice healthy typewriter...

then the teletype...

the...

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