[146904] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Water Utility SCADA 'Attack': The, um, washout
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Sat Nov 26 02:43:22 2011
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:35:05 +0000
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On Nov 26, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> traveling in Russia on personal business.
I've noticed that in general, when there isn't an actual attack taking plac=
e, but rather some kind of misconfiguration or other issue, there's all too=
often a tendency to run around shouting about the 133t h4x0rs; and when th=
ere's really an attack taking place, it's the last thing to be considered, =
if ever, heh.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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