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U.S. Plans to Tighten Nuclear Power Plant Security
CDMA_Demo writes "The 103 nuclear reactors running in USA can voluntarily agree to follow a new 15 page update to a 1996 regulatory guide. The update notes possibility of "unauthorized, undesirable, and unsafe intrusions", and recommends measures aginst such activities. It also recommends such facilities to be cut off from external networks: "Remote access...[that may pose a potential security risk]...should not be implemented". The Slammer worm in 2001 managed to bring down the network at Ohio's David-Besse nuclear plant and concerns kept growing at the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)."
You know you got owned when someone cracked your power plant and the fuel rods spell "owned" in binary.
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This, the week after a similar weakness* is shown on 24?
Remember to always question policy this way: WWJBD? What Would Jack Bauer Do?
That is all.
* Yes I know, it's TV.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
You can't say nuclear That really scares me Sometimes a brain can Come in quite handy.
What follows is the transcript of a conversation that took place between a top US defense official and his wife after watching this week's episode of Fox's popular drama 24.
Wife: It's a good thing the real nuclear power plants don't allow remote access! Man what fanciful terror alert situation will those 24 writers think of next?
Official: Uh...
The guy with his finger on the nukyalur button can't even say "nuclear". Think about that one before bed tonight.
To fight the war on terror, stop being afraid.
I guess he won't be able to work from home in his muumuu.
Why the heck are they running windows on nuclear power plants! "I just got the Blue Screen of Death." "Well, there went Texas!"
I was just watching a 24 hour news update, and apparently the internet boradcast of the execution of a US Secretary Heller was a coverup for an attack on a US nuclear base firewall.
This all in an attempt to use a remote control system developed for nuclear installations in case of a radiation leak or disaster.
It's no suprise... not like there wasn't a nuke detonated in the desert all those years ago. About time they wake up.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
Nuclear powerplant meltdown after lexus drive-by bluetooth infection.
Privacy is terrorism.
This Man has been fired...
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Is that a fuel rod in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?