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Re: OT: Traffic Light Control (was Re: First real-world SCADA attack

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan Fields)
Wed Nov 23 11:15:38 2011

Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:14:34 -0500
From: Bryan Fields <Bryan@bryanfields.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4ECC76BA.9090104@west.net>
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On 11/22/2011 23:29, Jay Hennigan wrote:
> But, an external cracker even with full access won't be able to cause a
> conflict.  Massive traffic jams by messing with the timing, short or
> long cycles, etc. but not a conflict.

So really all a hacker needs is a pair of dykes, some electrical tape, and an
all black jumpsuit.  At 3 am pry open the box and go to work.  Bet if they
trained at it they could be done in under 5 min.

Thank god it's so much easier to just shoot the lights out if you want to be a
vandal.

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