Write program on whatever you want, take SOURCE CODE on a CD (sorry no usb stick, that is not secure) to the secure programming workstation, compile there only after a scan of the files on the cd.
If the idiot cant figure that out, he really needs to be fired.
Stuxnet and other viruses can not infect the sourcecode unless the compilers are so borked they will execute the virus for them.
Better yet, require development be done on a secure machine.
Downloading updates? only download using a known clean LiveCD to download to a disk that you format inside that live CD.
This is not rocket science, just security 100 level stuff.
I solved this a decade ago when I was into SCADA programming Entire SCADA system is isolated NO connection to outside network, no apps other than the Control software.
Need to have data go to the administrator for stupid reports? easy solution.
Rs232. Rs232 TX and Gnd only hooked to the Scada system and set to output all stats in a streaming basis. Supervisors PC hooked to that RS232 to monitor all he likes. Infect his pc with nasty kil lyou all virus and it CAN NOT infect the SCADA system unless it can run a RX wire and Solder. it onto the connector.
Rs232 at 115bps was fast enough for a water filtration plant that had only 11,000 sensors and control-points. to be real time on the supervisors monitor.
Why? because competent system designer and installer would have disabled USB storage capabilities. How about a CD, sure, got the key to open the rackmount computer door? No... sowwy...
What idiot would program the system with a general purpose laptop? All parts of a SCADA system are supposed to be seperated including the programming pc. you sneaker-net the sourcecode to the programming pc, you compile it there. Only infection vector is to infect the sourcecode in a way that makes the compiler execute the virus. reduces the infection vector to that of military top secret levels.
Because the customer is too stupid to use a different OS for the single application that needs to run on that?
If you think that you need to run Office on the SCADA computer, please throw yourself from the nearest building as people who think the way you do are the cause of this problem.
"Hey dave, the nuclear reactor computer, you think it will run Netflix?" Yup: you're the problem.
Lots of IT pros have been screaming for a DECADE that only complete fucking morons put a SCADA system on anything that is connected to an external network. Let me repeat that. ONLY A COMPLETE MORON will hook up a scada system to a pc that bridges the internet and the secured network, OR puts the whole damn thing on a unsecured network.
Guess what, Complete morons are the managers of these places, these complete morons do not want to buy extra pc's so they have the employees check their email ON THE SCADA computers. OR they do something stupid and not lock them down and allow the users to install and run software on them.
This is not a new problem. Those of us in IT have known about it and have been yelling at the idiots in charge for a long time now. IT's just this is the first real "BITE THEM IN THE ASS" that has happened and got a lot of publicity.
Until the phone carriers get heir hands on it. Then it turns into a DRM riddled and neutered piece of junk. a fully unlocked all features available android phone is great. Some of the android phones with the helper crap and things added to fight you from doing linuxy things suck.
At least you know what you are getting with iphone. They dont promise freedom and then allow hitler companies to bastardize it.
the iPhone's biggest problem is the fact that most people DO NOT WANT AT&T as a carrier.
I know a lot of peole that have android phones that really like my iPhone4 but say, "Great phone, too bad you are on AT&T"
Honestly, Apple needs to pull the stupid exclusivity with AT&T, it's the #1 thing keeping people from even considering an iPhone.
The #2 is the misconception that it's "expensive" and has an "expensive plan" I run into that a lot and most every one looks at me saying really? when I say the phone is $399 and I pay $89.00 a month for 1400 minutes and unlimited data (Grandfathered! suck it peeps!) but even not grandfathered it's still less than $99.00 a month. Buddy of mine is paying $115.00 a month for his verizon plan with 2gb data.
Every single criminal in prison is convinced they were doing the right thing. It is rare for a criminal to say, "Yup I knew I was doing something really bad, I love to see fear and misery in people's faces."
Al Capone considered himself a hero of the people and fighting for the little guy.
If the subject were copyright infringement of music, we'd all be in support (or at least sympathize with) the infringing party.
Huh? I have never seen anyone support some scumbag artist that copies another artists song and profits from it. In fact most everyone here is AGAINST IT.
In fact the other side of the coin, Stealing a song and then SELLING it every single post on Slashdot for the entire time of it's existence has stood to be against people that steal a song and sell it.
What site are you reading? because your statement is not what I have ever seen even reading at 0 on slashdot.
Actually I find and other do as well, women in power positions typically are downright mean and are called "bitchey" all the time. It's rare to find a woman in power that understands power and does not do the overcompensation of foaming at the mouth to assert their power.
My wife will not work for a woman, she is tired of the problems she has had with them. I have had to only once and she was one of the rare ones that was a true leader and understood how to treat people (rare trait in ANY human)...
I have had to deal with Female executives as a contractor, and I right away try to find another company contact to get between me and her. Although I have walked out on a customer with her screaming at me, I packed up my laptop and calmly said, "I will not work in a hostile work environment, or be verbally abused like this. I am done for the day and will not return until you either talk to me with respect; or give me a different customer contact person to deal with if you are unable to."
Nothing like letting the customers deadline slide because of their behavior to get them to suddenly act civilized. I also encourage my employees to walk out on a customer if they are verbally abusing them or are treating them with respect.
If you need to fly, fly charter or private. if you do not go to the commercial terminal, you dont get molested.
I drive to the private corperate terminal, park my car within 100 feet of the jet, walk into the office, say hi to the counter lady if she is there, walk to the plane with my bags and sit down.
Honestly, Flying Commercial airlines is not worth it. Plus last time I paid $230.00 for a ride on a corperate jet flying back to Detroit from JFK. I was one of 4 people in that learjet, it rocked. Cost me only $100.00 more than flying in a 13" wide seat with a asshole in a suit hogging my armrest and the toothpick chick that thinks she can have 2 carry on bags because she is too damn cheap to check a bag.
Glad to see Canada finally getting straightened out and acting like the 51'st State of the united states.
Yup you canucks, we are your masters. Disagree with that? then fight like hell to not be the USA patsy up north, tell your law enforcement and parliment that you will NOT accept this kind of over reaching legislation.
Why surgically? This could easily be worn all the time like a collar.
Honestly, "professors" are getting pretty dimwitted lately, there is ZERO reason to surgically implant a camera except for trying to get infections and nasty medical problems. IF it's not wired to his brain, its pure stupid to implant it.
A better idea, a non removable waterproof collar with 8 cameras in it capturing a 360 degree view around him. This will not cause the nasty infection that will kill him in 6 months when the battery leaks and pumps heavy metals into his head.
Side with big business? They COME FROM big business.
The FDA and USDA are full of industry insiders fighting to screw American farmers and favor big business.
Just try and grow soybeans and not use Monsanto seed. They will sue to oblivion and bankrupt you.
Congresscritters are all either tied to big business or are friendly to them. It was what actually created the Tea Party, but unfortunately they got overrun by racist nut-jobs.
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I've had such things in the embedded world for over a decade.
What's next? NEW! small cards serve as memory devices!
It's dying, so please stop using it.
Turn in your DVD player, your BLuray Player, your Car stereo, your phone, your cellphone, your home automation gear, etc...
These kinds of articles are always written by those that know nothing at all about Computer or OS's in general.
DOS is still used in new products, Product that are mission critical.
Fire that idiot.
Write program on whatever you want, take SOURCE CODE on a CD (sorry no usb stick, that is not secure) to the secure programming workstation, compile there only after a scan of the files on the cd.
If the idiot cant figure that out, he really needs to be fired.
Stuxnet and other viruses can not infect the sourcecode unless the compilers are so borked they will execute the virus for them.
Better yet, require development be done on a secure machine.
Downloading updates? only download using a known clean LiveCD to download to a disk that you format inside that live CD.
This is not rocket science, just security 100 level stuff.
Why?
I solved this a decade ago when I was into SCADA programming Entire SCADA system is isolated NO connection to outside network, no apps other than the Control software.
Need to have data go to the administrator for stupid reports? easy solution.
Rs232. Rs232 TX and Gnd only hooked to the Scada system and set to output all stats in a streaming basis. Supervisors PC hooked to that RS232 to monitor all he likes. Infect his pc with nasty kil lyou all virus and it CAN NOT infect the SCADA system unless it can run a RX wire and Solder. it onto the connector.
Rs232 at 115bps was fast enough for a water filtration plant that had only 11,000 sensors and control-points. to be real time on the supervisors monitor.
Nothing happens..
Why? because competent system designer and installer would have disabled USB storage capabilities.
How about a CD, sure, got the key to open the rackmount computer door? No... sowwy...
It's easy to fix that issue.
What idiot would program the system with a general purpose laptop? All parts of a SCADA system are supposed to be seperated including the programming pc. you sneaker-net the sourcecode to the programming pc, you compile it there. Only infection vector is to infect the sourcecode in a way that makes the compiler execute the virus. reduces the infection vector to that of military top secret levels.
Because the customer is too stupid to use a different OS for the single application that needs to run on that?
If you think that you need to run Office on the SCADA computer, please throw yourself from the nearest building as people who think the way you do are the cause of this problem.
"Hey dave, the nuclear reactor computer, you think it will run Netflix?" Yup: you're the problem.
Wake up call? new?
Lots of IT pros have been screaming for a DECADE that only complete fucking morons put a SCADA system on anything that is connected to an external network. Let me repeat that. ONLY A COMPLETE MORON will hook up a scada system to a pc that bridges the internet and the secured network, OR puts the whole damn thing on a unsecured network.
Guess what, Complete morons are the managers of these places, these complete morons do not want to buy extra pc's so they have the employees check their email ON THE SCADA computers. OR they do something stupid and not lock them down and allow the users to install and run software on them.
This is not a new problem. Those of us in IT have known about it and have been yelling at the idiots in charge for a long time now. IT's just this is the first real "BITE THEM IN THE ASS" that has happened and got a lot of publicity.
And btw, Android IS linux.
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Until the phone carriers get heir hands on it. Then it turns into a DRM riddled and neutered piece of junk. a fully unlocked all features available android phone is great. Some of the android phones with the helper crap and things added to fight you from doing linuxy things suck.
At least you know what you are getting with iphone. They dont promise freedom and then allow hitler companies to bastardize it.
the iPhone's biggest problem is the fact that most people DO NOT WANT AT&T as a carrier.
I know a lot of peole that have android phones that really like my iPhone4 but say, "Great phone, too bad you are on AT&T"
Honestly, Apple needs to pull the stupid exclusivity with AT&T, it's the #1 thing keeping people from even considering an iPhone.
The #2 is the misconception that it's "expensive" and has an "expensive plan" I run into that a lot and most every one looks at me saying really? when I say the phone is $399 and I pay $89.00 a month for 1400 minutes and unlimited data (Grandfathered! suck it peeps!) but even not grandfathered it's still less than $99.00 a month. Buddy of mine is paying $115.00 a month for his verizon plan with 2gb data.
Every single criminal in prison is convinced they were doing the right thing. It is rare for a criminal to say, "Yup I knew I was doing something really bad, I love to see fear and misery in people's faces."
Al Capone considered himself a hero of the people and fighting for the little guy.
If the subject were copyright infringement of music, we'd all be in support (or at least sympathize with) the infringing party.
Huh? I have never seen anyone support some scumbag artist that copies another artists song and profits from it. In fact most everyone here is AGAINST IT.
In fact the other side of the coin, Stealing a song and then SELLING it every single post on Slashdot for the entire time of it's existence has stood to be against people that steal a song and sell it.
What site are you reading? because your statement is not what I have ever seen even reading at 0 on slashdot.
Actually I find and other do as well, women in power positions typically are downright mean and are called "bitchey" all the time. It's rare to find a woman in power that understands power and does not do the overcompensation of foaming at the mouth to assert their power.
My wife will not work for a woman, she is tired of the problems she has had with them. I have had to only once and she was one of the rare ones that was a true leader and understood how to treat people (rare trait in ANY human)...
I have had to deal with Female executives as a contractor, and I right away try to find another company contact to get between me and her. Although I have walked out on a customer with her screaming at me, I packed up my laptop and calmly said, "I will not work in a hostile work environment, or be verbally abused like this. I am done for the day and will not return until you either talk to me with respect; or give me a different customer contact person to deal with if you are unable to."
Nothing like letting the customers deadline slide because of their behavior to get them to suddenly act civilized. I also encourage my employees to walk out on a customer if they are verbally abusing them or are treating them with respect.
If you need to fly, fly charter or private. if you do not go to the commercial terminal, you dont get molested.
I drive to the private corperate terminal, park my car within 100 feet of the jet, walk into the office, say hi to the counter lady if she is there, walk to the plane with my bags and sit down.
Honestly, Flying Commercial airlines is not worth it. Plus last time I paid $230.00 for a ride on a corperate jet flying back to Detroit from JFK. I was one of 4 people in that learjet, it rocked. Cost me only $100.00 more than flying in a 13" wide seat with a asshole in a suit hogging my armrest and the toothpick chick that thinks she can have 2 carry on bags because she is too damn cheap to check a bag.
PHP-nerd to agent B entering his home...
"Hows the taste of the 00 Buckshot to the face?"
Hush you knob, you're soundin' like a hoser. eh.
But it keeps our officers in a never ending supply of free pot and cocaine.
Glad to see Canada finally getting straightened out and acting like the 51'st State of the united states.
Yup you canucks, we are your masters. Disagree with that? then fight like hell to not be the USA patsy up north, tell your law enforcement and parliment that you will NOT accept this kind of over reaching legislation.
That's PATSY not Pasty...
Proving that an advanced degree and tenure do not make you smart?
Why surgically? This could easily be worn all the time like a collar.
Honestly, "professors" are getting pretty dimwitted lately, there is ZERO reason to surgically implant a camera except for trying to get infections and nasty medical problems. IF it's not wired to his brain, its pure stupid to implant it.
A better idea, a non removable waterproof collar with 8 cameras in it capturing a 360 degree view around him. This will not cause the nasty infection that will kill him in 6 months when the battery leaks and pumps heavy metals into his head.
My wife ran into that and caused hell for an instructor.
She turned in 10 years ago a paper on a subject.
last semester she use the same topic and paper as a basis for her new class, updated it with new info.
You can not plagiarize or cheat from yourself. But it was marked as copied from another student. So she challenged the school and won.
Software makes the teacher lazy. Get off your ass and READ, you can tell if johnny pot-head wrote the paper or if he copied a lot of it.
Side with big business? They COME FROM big business.
The FDA and USDA are full of industry insiders fighting to screw American farmers and favor big business.
Just try and grow soybeans and not use Monsanto seed. They will sue to oblivion and bankrupt you.
Congresscritters are all either tied to big business or are friendly to them. It was what actually created the Tea Party, but unfortunately they got overrun by racist nut-jobs.
26cm actually...
"So I think their test implies that a laptop and a ferret in a dryer are smarter than the average human."
This is technically correct. Have you ever worked a tech support desk?
iBrainImplant. Now you can enjoy music the right way.... the way Jobs dictates it. That's right Job's own playlist is constantly played in your head!
Note: side effects include a overwhelming compulsion to buy anything released from apple. This is a minor bug.