(Times of Israel) Stuxnet, gone rogue, hit Russian nuke plant, space station (fwd)
J.A. Terranson
measl at mfn.org
Thu Nov 14 11:12:51 PST 2013
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
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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 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
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