Re: Is a full collapse possible?
Brian Loe <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Marcus J. Ranum <[email protected]> wrote: > Behm, Jeff wrote: >> >> Agreed. If they are smart they wouldn't do that > > Robots aren't smart. > > We can worry about the motives of human agents, but > doesn't it seem much more likely that some piece > of self-replicating code will get into one of these > SCADA systems and crash it all to hell? The end > result is the same. When I'm explaining risks for process networks to non-IT folks I don't talk about a "someone" hacking into the network and blowing it up or doing other malicious things. I tell them about the network I watched go down when only two of five hundred machines got infected with a new virus that the up-to-date AV software didn't know about. The plant blowing up is Hollywood. The plant going down for hours or days...now that's a loss of productivity they can feel in their pants, especially in today's job market.