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Did Blaster cause the blackouts?

No evidence, but good theory.

America suffers from power down
If the Blaster worm is anything to do with this outage, we also suspect Microsoft may be asked if it's anything to do with it. Plus the contractors who were not listened to, we understand, told management patches needed to be applied. Some one should lose their job. Michael Bloomberg, perhaps?

Here in Europe, we think too much of the US economy relies on Windows, on Microsoft and PCs. We might be wrong about this. But we wouldn't be surprised if we were right.

So, er, Mr. President, didn't we teach a good lesson to potential terrorists today? Apparently, it's very easy to immobilize major American and Canadian cities. Mr. President?

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