To: daviddennis
Seems to me we have to take these devices off the Internet without further delay.I would hope that any really critical control networks were never connected to "the internet" in the first place! Sheesh. Would they actually put something like the control valves to a nuke plant or a dam on outside access where hackers could snoop in the first place? Not likely IMHO.
26 posted on
06/26/2002 6:00:26 PM PDT by
Sender
To: Sender
I would agree with you - but that's what the article said happened.
D
To: Sender
"would hope that any really critical control networks were never connected to "the internet" in the first place! Sheesh. Would they actually put something like the control valves to a nuke plant or a dam on outside access where hackers could snoop in the first place? Not likely IMHO."
They aren't!
To: Sender
My sentiments exactly. These control systems can be completely isolated from any "connection" to the web. Access then is denied.
To: Sender
Would they actually put something like the control valves to a nuke plant or a dam on outside access where hackers could snoop in the first place? Not likely IMHO.You have to remember who's in charge of all this infrastructure -- government employees. From everything I've seen, many bureaucrats lack essential analytical skills. It's seems within the realm of possibility that they'd do something just that stupid.
99 posted on
06/30/2002 11:06:44 AM PDT by
Schatze
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