I thought this sounded more like Battlestar Galactica. Linking your
defenses to a simple computer system? How stupid is that?
Jeff M
On Feb 8, 2009, at 7:13 PM, John A. Newitt wrote:
At 8:33 PM -0500 2/8/09, Matthew Taylor wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/4547649/French-fighter-planes-grounded-by-computer-virus.html
French fighter planes grounded by computer virusFrench fighter
planes were unable to take off after military computers were
infected by a computer virus, an intelligence magazine claims.
by Kim Willsher in Paris
French fighter jets were unable to take off after military
computers were attacked by a virus Photo: AFP
The aircraft were unable to download their flight plans after
databases were infected by a Microsoft virus they had already been
warned about several months beforehand.
At one point French naval staff were also instructed not to even
open their computers.
I think they ignored Microsoft's warnings and felt that they had
nothing to fear since they had the Maginot line of anti-virus tools
installed on their systems. :-)
- John
*
** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives,
privacy **
** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://
www.cguys.org/ **
*
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
*
** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy **
** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ **
*
