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Re: Fw: [IP] Malware kills 154
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Mon Aug 23 12:19:47 2010
Date: 23 Aug 2010 15:50:30 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <20100823105631.26041689@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com>
Cc: perry@piermont.com
>> "Authorities investigating the 2008 crash of Spanair flight 5022
>> have discovered a central computer system used to monitor technical
>> problems in the aircraft was infected with malware...."
>>
>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38790670/ns/technology_and_science-security/?gt1=43001
This was very poorly reported. The malware was on a ground system that
wouldn't have provided realtime warnings of the configuration problem
that caused the plane to crash anyway.
R's,
John
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