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

[Cathal Garvey (Phone)]

But what if they use BadBIOS to beam into space on a microwave carrier by modulating the PSU of all infected laptops at once?!

"J.A. Terranson" <measl at mfn.org> wrote:
>
>On Tue, 12 Nov 2013, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote:
>
>> Regardless, the protip is: don't windows for critical systems.
>
>Wrong lesson.  Windows was used, but was not necessary.  The lesson
>here 
>is to reinforce the airgap with restrictions on who and how software
>and 
>hardware is connected to critical systems.  No critical system should
>be 
>connected to anything other than it's own closed system unless there is
>an 
>absolutely unavoidable reason (such as code repair).  Where the system 
>must be disturbed, nothing that connects to the protected system should
>be 
>unexamined prior to connection, and the examination should be
>meticulously 
>performed, by qualified personnel (and there should always be a 
>lab-duplicate upon which all such events are dry-runned).
>
>//Alif
>
>-- 
>Those who make peaceful change impossible,
>make violent revolution inevitable.
>
>An American Spring is coming:
>   one way or another.

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