Re: GSS warns that hackers can now destroy hardware

["B.K. DeLong" <bkdelong () pobox com>]

No - I'm pretty sure it was confirmed that this demo was done at Idaho
National Labs. I'm not sure if you're aware of their Critical
Infrastructure research they do out there but they have a solid team.

They used to build reactors for nuclear subs back in the 80s and I
heard anecdotes of how you'd have a large group of sailors wandering
around Idaho Falls in uniform thousands of miles away from the ocean.
Apparently they buried one in the desert to do training.

Check out the fact sheets for the test bed:
http://www.inl.gov/nationalsecurity/capabilities/security/

On 9/28/07, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:14:22 CDT, "Joel R. Helgeson" said:
>
> > David Hobson, Managing Director at GSS, said that a US government video of a
> > power station generator, released to the media earlier this week, clearly
> > shows what can happen when hackers take over control of a turbine system.
>
> I'm still unclear - was that video just a rigged demo, or fabricated out of
> the same whole cloth that Iranian WMD were?
>
> (An important distinction if you're basing public policy decisions based on it).
>
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