Re: Bad (Insecure) Business Decisons [Was: Re: IPv6, C&C (not bot nets, coffe and cats)]

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:22:06 -0000, Dave Paris said:
> It's not the meter reading portion of the links that scare me as much as 
> remote access to substations, grid interconnect points, etc.  I've seen 
> systems as Ferg describes below and utterly simplistic dial-in, 
> unauthenticated systems... no dialback, zippo.  Utterly insane.

But.. but... *nobody* could possibly guess the phone number, or know what
arcane commands are needed.  And what hacker would possibly be interested
in a system so backward it still needed a dial-up modem to get into? Come
on, get with the program, the movie "War Games" is *so* 1983.....

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