Re: Singapore Tightens Internet Security Laws

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded from: Robert G. Ferrell <rgferrell () direcway com>

At 06:17 AM 11/12/2003 -0600, you wrote:

> "Instead of a backpack of explosives, a terrorist can create just as
> much devastation by sending a carefully engineered packet of data
> into the computer systems which control the network for essential
> services, for example the power stations," Ho said.

If your power infrastructure is constructed such that people can be
killed and maimed from the Internet, you're a cataclysm waiting to
happen, terrorists or not.  Get your SCADA systems off the Internet,
for Pete's sake, or at least make sure their traffic is encrypted with
a decent key size.

"Cyberterrorism" feeds on stupidity; stop laying out the buffet and
you'll be a lot safer.

RGF

Robert G. Ferrell
rgferrell () direcway com



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