Re: GSS warns that hackers can now destroy hardware

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents montreal qc ca>]

> "The Department of Homeland Security video shows a mock-up of an
> industrial turbine taken over by [crackers] and destroyed by turning
> it into a heap of smoking metal," he said.

> This is so naively stupid I could rant for hours...

True...but not as stupid as the stupidity of giving the machines that
control things like industrial turbines *any* communication path to
"the net".  Every time I read about how some bit of malware has
infected a bank, or a utility infrastructure, or some such, my reaction
is "what the F--- was that network doing with a comm channel to the
outside world anyway?".

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