[146897] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT: Traffic Light Control (was Re: First real-world SCADA attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Hennigan)
Fri Nov 25 15:03:16 2011
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:02:22 -0800
From: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4ECFEDD7.6040505@bogus.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11/25/11 11:34 AM, Joel jaeggli wrote:
> Cars generically cause at lot more deaths than faulty traffic
> controllers 13.2 per 100,000 population in the US annually.
The cars don't (often) cause them. The drivers do. Yes, there are the
rare mechanical failures but the most likely cause is wetware. Ditto
airplane crashes. A mild example:
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20001212X18632
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