[146459] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Arguing against using public IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Sun Nov 13 21:44:26 2011
To: Brett Frankenberger <rbf+nanog@panix.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:14:59 CST."
<20111114011458.GA19365@panix.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:43:32 -0500
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:14:59 CST, Brett Frankenberger said:
> What if you air-gap the SCADA network of which you are in
> administrative control, and then there's a failure on it, and the people
> responsible for troubleshooting it can't do it remotely (because of the
> air gap), so the trouble continues for an extra hour while they drive
> to the office, and that extra hour of failure causes someone to die.
> Should that result in a homicide charge?
If you designed a life-critical airgapped network that didn't have a trained
warm body at the NOC 24/7 with an airgapped management console, and hot (or at
least warm) spares for both console and console monkey, yes, you *do* deserve
that negligent homicide charge.
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