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"Data storm" blamed for nuclear-plant shutdown

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Posted by Steve White 2007-05-20 00:02|| || Front Page|| [19 views ] Top

#1 Doesn't know what to do with bad data? Sounds suspiciously like Macrosoft's sloppy work.

Posted by gorb 2007-05-20 01:27|| 2007-05-20 01:27|| Front Page Top

#2 DRUDGE > DICAPRIO says HUMANS FACE EXTINCTION FROM GLOBAL WARMING. Wouldn't had happened iff we all wore togas and lived green like Leonardo.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-05-20 03:46|| 2007-05-20 03:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Take it from me (worked on design and construction of 4 nukes) the PLC and SCADA systems are strictly internal. Could be a dopey loop in the logic sequence under certain conditions that just now became apparent - low flow at certain temps or PSI for example.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-05-20 06:49|| 2007-05-20 06:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Why would a nuclear plant's Local area network (LAN) be connected to the Internet? (Another article mentioned the LAN was 10 Mbps - very OLD tech. I've seen old network interface cards go bad and saturate a network).

Posted by DMFD 2007-05-20 09:29|| 2007-05-20 09:29|| Front Page Top

#5 How about a plain old pressure switch? (several times redundant of course)do away with computer controls except as backup.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-05-20 13:10|| 2007-05-20 13:10|| Front Page Top

#6 there is no way for either the licensee (power company) or the NRC to know that this was not an external distributed denial-of-service attack.

Am I the only one who finds it supremely ironic and hysterically funny that DOS has finally come to mean denial-of-service?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-20 17:04|| 2007-05-20 17:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Am I the only one who finds it supremely ironic and hysterically funny that DOS has finally come to mean denial-of-service?

DOS = Disk Operating System
DoS = Denial of Service

It helps if you grasp the subtle differences between the acronym's.

Posted by Natural Law 2007-05-20 22:53|| 2007-05-20 22:53|| Front Page Top

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