____/ [H]omer on Saturday 24 November 2007 22:56 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> Stricken Antarctic ship evacuated
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>> | The M/S Explorer is now lying on its side close to the South
>> | Shetland Islands, in the Antarctic Ocean
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>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7108835.stm
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> From the caption: "The M/S Explorer has been listing for hours"
>
> Reboooooooot!
Fire in Ze Hol!!!!!!!
US Navy malware infection risked submarine prang
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| Richard F Sylvestre, from Massachusetts, installed malware on a
| computer network at the Italian HQ of the US 6th Fleet, America's
| standing taskforce in the Mediterranean.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/18/sub_traffic_malware_aliens_likelier/
Crash strike caution
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| If Microsoft's Windows operating system crashes and gives you the "blue
| screen of death", it's a pain in the proverbial, but it's hardly
| life-threatening. In 1998, however, a United States Navy destroyer, the
| USS Yorktown, was left stranded and vulnerable when its Windows
| NT-based control system failed.
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| [...]
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| In fact, such networking could be a security risk. Western nations are
| becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyber-attack from hostile nations,
| terrorist groups and criminal syndicates, and an increasing reliance in
| civilian technologies by intelligence and military agencies is having an
| adverse effect on national security.
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/security/crash-strike-caution/2007/04/09/1175971018555.html
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~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert (MCSE)
http://Schestowitz.com | GNU is Not UNIX | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
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