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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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What they should have done if they weren't appallingly negligent 2003-09-01
Roger
Alex makes a good point in "MS Windows && Powerplants". A lot of people here are saying "they should have used Unix". While Unix would have been a much better choice, it is still marginal for mission critical tasks of this degree of sensitivity. Indeed, most if not all Unices come with a disclaimer ...

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