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Re: [IP] Malware kills 154
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Mon Aug 23 15:45:00 2010
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <E1OnYg5-00052f-Nm@wintermute02.cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:37:48 -0400
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, perry@piermont.com
To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
On Aug 23, 2010, at 11:11 13AM, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> forwards:
>=20
>> "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...."
>>=20
>> =
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38790670/ns/technology_and_science-security/?g=
t1=3D43001
>=20
> Sigh, yet another attempt to use the "dog ate my homework" of computer
> problems, if their fly-by-wire was Windows XP then they had bigger =
things to
> worry about than malware.
>=20
To say nothing of what happens when you run a nuclear power plant on =
Windows: =
http://www.upi.com/News_Photos/Features/Irans-Bushehr-nuclear-power-plant/=
3693/2/ (slightly OT, I realize, but too good to pass up).
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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