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Quote Of The Century

By Kate on August 6, 2013 5:01 PM | 9 Comments

"Remind me again, who thought it was a good idea to make critical infrastructure accessible via the internet?

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The Phantom | August 6, 2013 6:05 PM | Reply

"...who thought it was a good idea to make critical infrastructure accessible via the internet?"

It was the first management weenie with good hair and room temperature IQ who found out how cheap it was compared with a secure system, that's who.

And the first engineer who screamed "ARE YOU F___ING CRAZY?!!!!!" got fired, so the rest of them shut up like clams.

Because you can't fix stupid.

By the way, did you know your government mandated "Smart Meter(tm)" is actually a cheap, crappy little PC running an unsecured Linux distribution? Yep. Oh, and it will often have open wireless/Bluetooth channels too.

Same guy thought that one up.

Robert of Ottawa | August 6, 2013 7:03 PM | Reply

There are very simple ways to keep networked industrial complexes safe from hacking ... most notably, don't connect it to the internet.

Bill B | August 6, 2013 7:25 PM | Reply

China openly attacks US and I am sure Canada as well, but we are either oblivious or just don't care.

SO F4CKING WHAT?

Do you think anything will change?

China will still get all our industrial and service sector jobs, their immigrants will still infest our cities, replacing English signs with mandarin and pushing Canadian residents from their homes and jobs.

You all collectively are not willing to do anything about it and will keep giving Chicom more and more of our and my cash. Can't fix stupid indeed.

In the medieval times people grabbed pitchforks for a fraction of abuses you are tolerating with a smile.

Osumashi Kinyobe | August 6, 2013 8:23 PM | Reply

Is there a reason why we trade with China?

John Lewis replied to comment from Robert of Ottawa | August 6, 2013 9:04 PM | Reply

Electromagnetic isolation is still necessary, though. The ordinary computer can be read from outside
a building, and a digital controller could probably be manipulated remotely. Still, it can be done. For secure communications the devices are often put in a room entirely enclosed by copper mesh.

The last time I looked a Tempest-rated PC was about 10 times as expensive as the corresponding
vanilla computer. That was a while ago - I have no idea about current prices.

rmgk | August 6, 2013 11:15 PM | Reply

I remember 'tempest safe' from my days in the Forces. This got me wondering - and this would be a good place to ask - If a person were to use the shell of a non-functioning microwave oven (no electronics or magnetron), would the shielding be enough to protect your CPU from hackers; and other electronics from an EMP?

Dick Slater replied to comment from Osumashi Kinyobe | August 7, 2013 12:33 AM | Reply

Once you realise our masters and the Chinese Communist Party are merely branch offices of the same infernal firm, it ought to be obvious why this is allowed to go on. Our masters know exactly what they're about.

If by divine providence the United States found a leader willing to do what was just in the Lord's eyes, and govern in the interests of the American people and not the banksters and communists, a wink and a nod to Beijing would be all that was needed to make the United States incapable of resisting "normalization." Bluntly put, the plain people would be forced to choose between either wholesale famine and plague as modern electric and water systems are put beyond use by Chinese cyberwarfare, or acquiescence to allowing the latterday Josiah to be replaced with rulers more to their masters' liking.

LAS | August 7, 2013 12:48 AM | Reply

There are a lot of benefits to connecting infrastructure. It's just that the security is lacking and the NSA is too busy spying on us to do its job.

sasquatch replied to comment from rmgk | August 8, 2013 12:49 AM | Reply

Yeah well, Faraday cages are not that tricky.

I have an associate who stores his gen-set in a large dog cage connected to a ground rod. That should render the gen-set hardened against an EMP or Carington event.

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