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

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, B.K. DeLong wrote:
> I think what disturbs me most about this is that we were having this
> exact same discussion in 1999 and we're almost a decade out PAST 9-11
> and they're still not fixed.
>
> On 6/29/07, Dave Paris <dparis () w3works com> wrote:
> > 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.

The movie "Live Free or Die" story concept was "inspired" from a 1997 
Wired article.

And of course, the Morris worm hit the Internet in 1988.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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