[cta at hcsin.net: Re: CNN: 'Explores Possibility that Power Outage is Related to Internet Worm']

[John Young]

Are you suggesting the outage was caused by carbon filaments rocketed
across transmission lines? If that was done at several points in the grid it 
would account for the various finger-pointing to incidents which are claimed
to have started the usual-suspect "cascade" of the usual-suspect "antiquated" 
system that was "not supposed to fail but it did."

Perhaps a re-inventory of the USAF's storehouse of BLU-114s is needed to
double-check that story about lightning strike.


Harmon Seaver wrote:
>   Somehow I have difficulty believing the these people could be so
totally lame
>as to be running mission-critical stuff like this on windoze. Please say it
>isn't true. Is the military also now dependant on windoze? Bizarre,
absolutely
>bizarre. And here I thought it was probably caused by people with potato guns
>firing tennis balls filled with concrete, attached to coils of wire cable,
>dropping them across the power lines and transformer stations.