U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

Thu Jul 8 17:25:54 UTC 2010

On 7/8/2010 9:51 AM, Brandon Ross wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Michael Painter wrote:
>
>> Have we all gone mad?
>> I find it hard to understand that a nuclear power plant, air-traffic 
>> control network, or electrical grid would be 'linked' to the Internet 
>> in the interest of 'efficiency'.  Air gap them all and let them apply 
>> for "Inefficiency Relief" from the $100 million relief fund.
>
>
> Heck, removing all of these functions from the Internet will create 
> jobs, too, right?  And no one would mind paying for all of this out of 
> their airline tickets, it should only increase fares by a third or so.
>
You know it is possible, mind you, possible to have control systems for 
things like the power grid and nuclear power plants to live on a 
physically separate network within a building from a terminal that has 
the internet connected to it.

--C