[146898] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT: Traffic Light Control (was Re: First real-world SCADA attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel jaeggli)
Fri Nov 25 15:09:13 2011
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:08:07 -0800
From: Joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
In-Reply-To: <4ECFF44E.5050502@west.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11/25/11 12:02 , Jay Hennigan wrote:
> 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:
while they may well have otherwise been runover by an oxcart in the
absence of automobiles, if they we're behind the wheel of a complex 2
ton machine there would be no accident.
> http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20001212X18632
>
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