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

Cathal Garvey cathalgarvey at cathalgarvey.me
Thu Nov 14 07:38:30 PST 2013


Also, I was kidding. :)

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