Nuclear Training Software Downloaded To Iran

SixFactor sends in word of a theft of training software for a nuclear plant. An ex-employee of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, in Arizona, allegedly downloaded training software to his laptop while he was in Iran. The software was downloaded from a Maryland-based contractor to the nuclear plant. It contained information about the Palo Verde facility: control rooms, reactors, and design. It was used to simulate situations for training at the site. Why the ex-engineer downloaded the software is not known. What is troubling is this person's ability to access the software after his employment at the site ended.

Comments

Theft?

[Anonymous Coward]

Sorry, the term you're looking for is copyright infrigement. Copyright infrigement is not theft since when a copy of a file is made, the owner isn't stripped of the original file. (queue some more inane Slashbot babble about copyright and `information should be free')

Which one?

[ms1234]

Would it be Nucular or Nuclear? If it's the first, then I'm not worried.

Re:Yeah, that would be the devil's advocate.

[Anonymous Coward]

Readers, take note. This is likely the smartest way possible to say something stupid.

.Torrent?

[KoldKompress]

Anyone got the .torrent to the software?
for.. training purposes. You know.

Re:Why did the server...

[lixee]

Can't be that hard to block out connections from rouge countries.

Ha! I didn't know Iranians were communists.

Re:Which bombing?

[Anonymous Coward]

More to the point, the "we have nukes so you can't invade us, nyah" argument tends to dissolve if you consider that even a bunch of wacked up religious fanatics like the people who run Iran will eventually realize that using an atomic weapon would be the equivalent to comitting national suicide.

Lucky we're not up against people willing to kill themselves for defense, eh?

OH NOESS!!!

[crhylove]

They might actually build a CONTROL ROOM. YOU SICK TWISTED MUSLIM TERRORISTS HAVE NO RIGHT TO EXPLORE CHEAP ELECTRICITY!!! OPEC will kill you all!!

rhY

PS This is where I put plenty of non caps text because my attempt at /. humor is being lame filtered.

Trying Before Buying

[jprupp]

Come on, we Iranians are just trying the software before buying it.

Re:Yawn.

[fatduck]

Stop being silly. Everyone knows we can't trust the Arabs to run a nuclear power plant - they're not even white.

Re:Which bombing?

[Dog-Cow]

Japan accepted the most refugees from the Holocaust. I know, personally, many people who went through Japan on their way to the US to escape Germany. Japanese no more dislike Jews than they dislike any other foreigners.

Re:Murderous Dictator is the word you're looking f

[CowTipperGore]

Fine, though I humbly do suggest that said contractors be required to hire a certain number of people who come back crippled (either physically, emotionally, or mentally) from Iraq or Iran if we go in there. Call it their way of repaying society for the opportunity to make fuck-you money. They already do their part. With the $10 billion profits they made this year, Exxon's executives will be buying even larger houses and replacing their out-dated private jets. Both create jobs and probably are good for the environment in some manner. And Halliburton is moving their headquarters to Dubai to save the American taxpayers money - with all corporate records out of the US there is little point in wasting money on expensive investigations.