[aklug] Re: Drupal :: the real linux test

On Sat, October 13, 2012 10:07 am, Tim Johnson wrote:
> * Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> [121012 17:51]:
<snip>
>> PHP had become ubiquitous in web presence, and combined with
>> security openings it could turn out to be a "Cyber Pearl Harbor".
>> My wife is glaring at me and pointing at the dinner tables, so
>> gotta go - but let me leave you with one word - and I'll explain
>> it tomorrow if folks don't get it.
>>
>> skada
> Tsk! Tsk! So hungry I mispelled. Should have been
>
> SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition)
>
> and they are all over our power and communications grid.
> Control by PCs. PCs connected to internet. 'nuff said.

It's even worse than that. SCADA devices have hundreds of
publicly known vulnerabilities that the manufacturers and/or
utilities refuse to patch.

I can't understand why anyone who suggests attaching any
mission-critical system to the Internet isn't immediately
pummeled into either sanity or a coma. More people should
understand that national defense includes making ourselves
less vulnerable.

--
Bryan Medsker
bamedsker@uaa.alaska.edu
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