[100930] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BOTNET reference involving oscilloscope
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Fri Nov 23 21:08:09 2007
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:08:10 +0900
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4746FA7A.30800@ukbroadband.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007, Leigh Porter wrote:
>
>
> We have a load of test kit here running Windows, it frightens me as it
> gets moved from lab to lab office to office and nobody runs anything on
> it to keep in check.
>
> It's a sad sad world when you need anti virus software on your lab test kit!
>
> I mean really, how screwed up is it to run Windows on a spectrum
> analyser and then leave everything open, on SP1 with no firewall and no
> patches and then go plugging it into peoples networks.
I believe a local university physics department had a STM (microscope)
running Windows 95 or Windows 98 + embedded stuff. The drivers broke whenever
you tried patching it away from the shipped software version.
The academics demanded that the device be accessible from everywhere so they
could drag/drop data files to/from other universities on the thing. With a
public IP address.
Adrian
