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Subject: IP: POLITICALLY CORRECT: DOE IS SLOW TO WARN OF COMPUTER VIRUS.: What's New for Mar 16, 2001

From: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 04:57:49 -0500


>4. POLITICALLY CORRECT: DOE IS SLOW TO WARN OF COMPUTER VIRUS.
>The "Naked Wife" virus was already wreaking havoc, but when DOE
>headquarters set out to warn the troops, the politically correct
>DOE software balked at the word "naked."  WN has been told that
>it took several hours before the warning could be passed on.



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