[ale] gotta gets me a fully "online house" so I can gets me fridge hacked too!

[Richard Bronosky]

Almost a decade ago I was doing [ladder logic] programming of PLCs
(Programmable Logic Controllers,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_logic_controller aka:
industrial computers) and was horrified to find that in addition to
the reliable staples like Allen Bradley, Siemens, Omron, Mitubishi,
etc. there was a new competitor on the market... microsoft. Taking
high demand controllers of industrial manufacturing machines and
making them rely on windows CE and visual basic... Oh, and introducing
TCP/IP connectivity! Absolutely negligently terrifying!

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> More accurately: cyber warfare has begun.
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/205827/was_stuxnet_built_to_attack_irans_nuclear_program.html
> http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3742960,00.html
>
> The article discussed the very specific attack vector against Seimens
> controllers. Those are also all over the industrial world.
>
> loads of little embedded controllers no one has done more than a cursory
> security check on are all over every industrial process. And those control
> devices are not accessible by only sneaker-net as that defeats the purpose
> of having them in the first place.
>
> yikes! X10's everywhere.
>
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> James P. Kinney III
> I would rather stumble along in freedom than walk effortlessly in chains.
>
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