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50 years ago today, the Northeast went dark

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The Northeast blackout of 1965, which occurred 50 years ago today, was one of those “Where were you?” historical events that those who lived through it will never forget.

I was at home in North Attleboro, Mass., and while only eight years old, remember the blackout vividly. About 30 million people living in Ontario, New York, New Jersey and the New England states sparing Maine were plunged into darkness for up to 13 hours.

This clip from NBC News captures both the drama of evening – Cold War fears were in full force – and the primitiveness of reporting under such conditions 50 years ago.

What caused the outage? From Wikipedia:

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Google’s Sundar Pichai Claims Android May Not Be As Safe? What Went Wrong … – International Business Times AU

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Google's Sundar Pichai Claims Android May Not Be As Safe? What Went Wrong …
International Business Times AU
I would argue that it's the best way for a platform to be secure, because every researcher in the world can inspect it, every developer in the world can inspect it, and I think that contributes a lot to Android security." Network World also reported …

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2012: The Year Malware Went Nuclear – Infosecurity Magazine

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CIO Today

2012: The Year Malware Went Nuclear
Infosecurity Magazine
Kaspersky Lab – which to a large extent has led the analyses of the new cyberweapon class of malware (Stuxnet, Duqu, and Flame) has been taking a closer look at what the most destructive sample, Wiper, has left behind. Malware targeting Android triples …
Kaspersky Warns of Android 'Drive-By Download' AttacksCIO Today
Eugene Kaspersky Wins V3's Technology Hero of 2012 AwardSacramento Bee

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what was the movie about a home security computer that went mad back in the 70’s called?

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not sure, but I think it was a made for tv movie sometime in the 1970’s about a professor that had this home based security computer system that went mad while his wife was alone there, what was that called?