On 7/8/2010 9:51 AM, Brandon Ross wrote:
On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Michael Painter wrote:
Have we all gone mad?
I find it hard to understand that a nuclear power plant, air-traffic
control network, or electrical grid would be 'linked' to the Internet
in the interest of 'efficiency'. Air gap them all and let them apply
for "Inefficiency Relief" from the $100 million relief fund.
Heck, removing all of these functions from the Internet will create
jobs, too, right? And no one would mind paying for all of this out of
their airline tickets, it should only increase fares by a third or so.
You know it is possible, mind you, possible to have control systems for
things like the power grid and nuclear power plants to live on a
physically separate network within a building from a terminal that has
the internet connected to it.
--C
