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Blackout Cause: Buggy Code

Posted by michael on Thursday February 12, 2004 @01:31AM from the civilization-meets-the-woodpecker dept.

blanca writes "The big northeast blackout from last summer was caused in part by a software bug in an energy managment system sold by General Electic, according to a story on SecurityFocus. The bug meant that a computerized alarm that should have been triggered never went off, hindering FirstEnergy's response to the train of events that lead to the cascading blackout. Investigators found the bug in a intensive code audit following the outage, and a patch is now available."

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outsourcing? by lone_marauder · 2004-02-12 01:44 · Score: 0, Redundant

Wouldn't it just be classic if it turns out that this code was outsourced?

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1. Re:outsourcing? by Savage-Rabbit · 2004-02-12 02:00 · Score: 0, Redundant
  
  Wouldn't it just be classic if it turns out that this code was outsourced?
  
  Yeah, to India...
  
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