(Times of Israel) Stuxnet, gone rogue, hit Russian nuke plant, space station (fwd)

[measl@mfn.org (J.A. Terranson)]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2013, Cathal Garvey wrote:

> Also, I was kidding. :)

It's pretty hard to tell the difference between kidding and sarcasm making 
an argument I have heard more times than I like to believe: still, I'm 
glad it was the former and not the latter!


//Alif
--
Those who make peaceful change impossible,
make violent revolution inevitable.

An American Spring is coming:
   one way or another.


> On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 06:38:10 -0600 (CST)
> "J.A. Terranson" <measl@mfn.org> 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