On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:36:17PM -0400, Richard M. Smith composed: > And here's more: > > Blackout Probe Hears FirstEnergy Tapes > http://tinyurl.com/m8q4 > > ... > > The House committee released a transcript of telephone calls between > FirstEnergy and the Midwest region's power grid operator which showed > growing chaos and confusion in FirstEnergy's control room in the hours > before the blackout. > > "We have no clue. OUR COMPUTER IS GIVING US FITS, TOO. We don't even > know the status of some of the stuff around us," an operator at Akron, > Ohio-based FirstEnergy said. This suggestst that claims of network disruption are spurious (Blaster has very little network load, a side effect of bad design), rather than operator CONTROL computers were directly infected, as Blaster causes all sorts of weird side-effects (eg, Cut & paste, drag and drop, and any control system using RPC stops working). -- Nicholas C. Weaver nweaver@cs.berkeley.edu