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