Also, I was kidding. :) On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 06:38:10 -0600 (CST) "J.A. Terranson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2013, Cathal Garvey (Phone) wrote:
>
> > But what if they use BadBIOS to beam into space on a microwave
> > carrier by modulating the PSU of all infected laptops at once?!
>
> I understand your point, however, we aren't talking about just any
> old system, we are discussing the most critical parts of electronic
> infrastructure here. When you've got a computer controlling fission,
> or power distribution {$your critical infrastructure of choice}, this
> is simply a Best Practice. Hell, if we can do this for crap like
> public Internet carriers[1], why is it unreasonable to do this for
> actual critical systems?
>
> //Alif
>
> [1] I have worked for or with several internet carriers who enforced
> this kind of security around their core systems: the smallest was a
> very small regional carrier, while the largest was a multinational
> NSP. The only potential losses were dollars - painful but not
> necessarily fatal, or with any national security interest. If a
> dipshit regional carrier can do this, a power company failing to do
> so is simply negligent.
>
> And yes, I know that power companies are notoriously casual with
> their SCADA systems: it makes me crazy to think about it.
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