Arguing against using public IP space

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Mon Nov 14 02:43:32 UTC 2011


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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