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Chip Giant TSMC Struggles With Virus Infections at its Factories (engadget.com)
Many of the tech products launching this fall might have just run into production setbacks. From a report: Giant chip manufacturer TSMC has warned that several of its fabrication plants suffered virus infections on August 3rd, disrupting production. Some of these plants recovered in a "short period of time," it said, but others wouldn't resume business as usual for "one day." The company dismissed claims that this was a hack, but didn't initially provide details about the virus or the potential infection path. TSMC promised more information on August 6th.
Lemme guess... ms windows?
Maybe a shop like that should always run an industrial strength OS?
(Read: Unix)
http://www.stolk.org/tlctc
You don't know that.
You do know that. The few and far between cases where Linux gets exploited tend to receive gleeful and widespread press coverage of the name and shame kind. Causing Linux guys to double down and work twice as hard to make that not happen again. Never perfect, but undeniably damn good.
When the exploit vector isn't named in the article, you know damn well what it was.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Wow, it is posts like yours that make it worth wading through all the sludge.
Now we only use windows PCs for prototyping
Right, a lot of good engineering software runs only on Windows, but you don't need a Windows PC to run it, virtualization is highly effective and seamless these days. You do need a Windows license but only the most basic and the cost is trivial.
Beyond that, a lot of engineering tools come from small coding shops. Just pay for a Linux port. The big boys are already on Linux (BTW, more than a little interesting that ARM shows up in the selected support category.)
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.