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Irate Unix administrator admits trying to sabotage California
From:Joe Klemmer
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:18:29 -0500

[So how many of you have thought of doing something like this?  Yeah,
and all you who said "not me" are lying.  -  jjk]

Irate Unix administrator admits trying to sabotage California power grid
Charles Babcock InformationWeek 
(12/19/2007 9:00 AM EST)
 
A contract Unix system administrator pleaded guilty to trying to disrupt
a data center where he was employed in Folsom, Calif., by hammering the
safety glass of an emergency power shut-off, then pushing the shut-down
button.

The case drew the attention of the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force in
Sacramento, Calif., because it involved an attempt to shut down a data
center of the California Independent System Operator Corp., an
electrical power consortium chartered by the state to manage the
statewide energy grid.

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205100649