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Unpatched, Virus-Infected Windows To Blame For Grounded French Fighter Pilots And Halt To Traffic Arrests In Houston
from the gov't-security dept
Reader Calvin sends in two separate stories of government institutions who apparently failed to patch their Windows machines to protect against the Conficker virus -- despite the patch being available for many months. First, Houston police have stopped arresting people with outstanding traffic warrants and shut down the municipal court system for a few days to try to deal with their computer systems being overrun by the virus. Then, across the Atlantic, the French Navy is dealing with a similar problem, forcing them to ground many of their fighter planes. Some naval staff were told not to turn on their computers at all, as apparently the Navy's internal computer network has been hit by the virus as well. Apparently, now might be a good time to run some traffic lights in Houston or invade France (kidding, kidding...).
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cheese-eating surrender monkeys
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French Navy
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So have the French raised the alert level?
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Ha Ha Ron
food trough whopper! I fart in your general direction! You mother was a hamster and your father smelt of edeberries. Why do think I have this outrageous accent, you
silly king!
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Frenchies
Or like germans who use linux (free. but our soldiers are still learning how to install the drivers).
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UK Subs
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The French...
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Confused
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Mushroom cloud
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Pop Up
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Be afraid, be very afraid
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Quite, quite stupid -- but expected
They're wrong. This incident is merely the latest confirmation of that, one of many -- many! -- that no doubt will be explained away by the inferior Microsoft fanboys as the fault of system administrators or somesuch.
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That was a US fighter.
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Allas in ordung! Duitschland!
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