You just block USB mass storage devices. http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/06/26/disable-usb-removable-mass-storage-device-drive-access-in-windows/ The problem is how do get data on or off the system. If it was me I would consider a network server/workstation that runs Linux or BSD. Copy the data from the flash drives to the server then run anti virus on them. Doing and not copying the lnk files but just the data files might have prevented the infections. Thing is that if this slows down Iran's nuclear program without hurting anybody. BTW why is everybody jumping on it being the US? Israel is more than capable of doing this and they have an even better reason than the US does. I doubt that you would have any problem finding a team of top notch programmers and engineers in Israel that would be willing to work on something like this.
I would assume that thermocouple would be an analog input. RPM would tend to be a digital pulse. Set a limit that if the time between pulses x then y to prevent an over speed. Seems almost like you would want a hard limiter on something like a turbine so that an programing error couldn't cause a failure but I may just being a Monday morning quarterback. PLCs mature tech so unless someone intends to blow it all should be well.
Back in the day when everybody read Byte Chaos Manor was probably the most important place outside of the cover you could be. Jerry Pournell wrote what we would the column based on what he used. His system was simple. Send me your stuff and I get to keep it all. If he didn't like your stuff he would say so or just not write about it. If he did like your stuff it was fantastic for you. Borland as a company pretty much was born when Jerry Pournell wrote about how great this cheap Pascal compiler called TruboPascal was. Borland to a loan for their first full page ad based just on that column.
Now that would be considered not legit but at the time no one minded. Truth is that his reviews where brutally honest and very good.
Another quick question for you. How the heck does this code get run? Putting a mass storage device into a machine shouldn't run code unless you have auto run turned on.
Wouldn't you disable the USB slots at the BIOS or OS level as well. Also wouldn't autorun have to be turned on or something! Just sticking mass storage in a drive shouldn't cause an infection. Or is this some really nasty hacked file system exploit.
Actually all reactors go critical. That is how they run. I assume you mean have and excursion or some other catastrophic failure. It is very possible and frankly it makes Rickenbacker's policy about computer controls seem like a very good idea. At this point we should just rename this thing the Cylon worm and be done with it.
I have never used a PLC but this seems like you would have to know a lot of inside information to target something. How would the worm know if an input tied to turbine RPM or if it is some other device? Do specific inputs on a PLC got specific ports? Or do you just have generic A/D and GPIO ports?
Not really if you look at the war powers enacted during WWI and WWII these are pretty tame. Also no it is just making excuses. Thing is that for all I know Obama and Bush did and are doing the right thing involving some of the surveillance. I for one still really want court orders to be required but that is just my opinion. What gets me is the buck passing. Obama is president now. He has made no public effort to repeal or reduce the powers given the government under the Patriot Act. If you think that is wrong then blame Obama for not doing it. Do not try and keep blaming Bush for what Obama is doing now.
Open Office is in big trouble. Sun provided most of the money for this project and now that is gone. How will OO.org get funding? Firefox/mozilla gets it from Google search. Without some revenue Open Office is going to be in a world of hurt.
I do not think that is even fair to say about Microsoft. The IE 9 looks pretty interesting. Everyone is jumping on the HW acceleration for browsers now. Zune Pass is also interesting. If Microsoft had created an app store and SDK for the ZuneHD I would have gotten one. The 360 is very popular and had NetFliz streaming for a while now. Microsoft does do some cools stuff. The problem is that they are now acting like a drunk elephant.
Apple in some ways I find to be sad. I so wanted an Apple II back when I got my C64. It was a real computer and had slots and everything. IMHO Apple needs to bring back some of the spirit of the other Steve. I would love for them to open up the specks on the new IPhone/Ipod doc so hackers can make their own devices for them. But they are a consumer company now and not a hacker company.
Not really. As the publicity and mindless fandom increases so will narcissism. Also people can and do get feed up with dealing with a jerk after a while. I suggest you read the story. Slightly more complex? Not really. A lot more paranoid? Yes.
Let's go right to cars. I bet if you couldn't up all the coverage about cars you will find that Porsche, Ferrari, and Bugatti get a lot more press than they should based on market share. That is because people are interested in them more than Chevy's and Kia's. If you look at models you will see that that there is a lot more coverage of the Mustang than the Focus even though the Focus probably out sells the Mustang 10 to 1. When you look at computers it is also much the same. You just don't see a lot of coverage on low end Dells and HPs. It is all interest driven. A lot of it is also we are interested in what we don't have. I really don't need to read about Windows XP or Windows 7 much. I use them everyday. I do like reading about Supercomputers, BSD, and VMS because I don't have them to play with.
So no Apple does interesting stuff and do not produce commodity PCs. Apple is more in the BMW range than say Ferrari or Bugatti IMHO but Microsoft is Kia or maybe Honda. BTW being Kia or Honda isn't a bad thing. It just isn't all that sexy and interesting.
Wow the idea that Assange is narcissistic is so abhorrent to you that you first reaction is that the US government got to them.
This is the worst kind of hero worship. If you keep this up there can only be two results. 1. I life of mindless devotion to Assange. 2. Deep depression when you finally find out the Assange isn't perfect. I suggest you read the story first. Even if you think Assange is right then it comes down to a simple battle of egos which Assange as a leader didn't handle correctly IMHO. And that is the best case for Assange. Assange I feel that Assange is a publicity hound and shows no journalistic integrity. That is my take on things you are of course free to disagree.
I never said that the content providers are without fault. I have a friend that married a very nice man from Norway. She now lives in Norway with her husband and two kids. She would love to use Hulu. She would love to watch some of th shows from her childhood and new shows in English but she can not.
Yes things like region coded DVDs and everything else they do is just dumb and out of date. I would love to watch BBC on my PC at home. I get BBC america on my TV but that isn't the same.
You will get no argument from me. If the networks offered the shows for free with commercials over the internet and offered to sell them for.99 for DRM I think piracy would be just stop or be so small as to not matter. But they just don't get it.
What we all really want is to go back to the good old days in the US. We want commercial TV for free just like we used to get OTA.
Well several sites let you stream it with commercials for free. Hulu and TV.com DVDs didn't have rootkits that was CDs and I do agree DRM sucks. If I pay for the DVD I should have the option to rip it and make a backup.
But the legal and ethical choice is to not watch it if you don't like how they are selling it. Just taking it show that it does have value to you. So much value that you will break the law to get it. That means to get the max profit they need to not drop the price but increase the penalties.
Actually they where really good. I find the misses interesting. Every technology at some point seems to become the darling and then it becomes mature and boring in short order. They had extremely high hopes for ships two days to cross the Atlantic but very little for aircraft. If you go to the late 1940s you will see them predicting Mach 3 airliners or rockets to Europe but nothing really about computers and the video phone was the best telecomuntions break through. In the 1960s it was moon bases and Giant Electronic brains. Today it is Biotech and Nanotech. I wonder if we are over estimating or under on those. My prediction is that Computers have reached mature and boring.
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You just block USB mass storage devices.
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/06/26/disable-usb-removable-mass-storage-device-drive-access-in-windows/
The problem is how do get data on or off the system.
If it was me I would consider a network server/workstation that runs Linux or BSD. Copy the data from the flash drives to the server then run anti virus on them.
Doing and not copying the lnk files but just the data files might have prevented the infections.
Thing is that if this slows down Iran's nuclear program without hurting anybody.
BTW why is everybody jumping on it being the US? Israel is more than capable of doing this and they have an even better reason than the US does.
I doubt that you would have any problem finding a team of top notch programmers and engineers in Israel that would be willing to work on something like this.
I would assume that thermocouple would be an analog input. RPM would tend to be a digital pulse. Set a limit that if the time between pulses x then y to prevent an over speed. Seems almost like you would want a hard limiter on something like a turbine so that an programing error couldn't cause a failure but I may just being a Monday morning quarterback. PLCs mature tech so unless someone intends to blow it all should be well.
And why would a scada system have autorun turned on?
The second option is harder to deal with. Wow that is just nasty.
Yes but I am talking about $5000+ systems when that was a lot of money.
Back in the day when everybody read Byte Chaos Manor was probably the most important place outside of the cover you could be.
Jerry Pournell wrote what we would the column based on what he used.
His system was simple. Send me your stuff and I get to keep it all.
If he didn't like your stuff he would say so or just not write about it.
If he did like your stuff it was fantastic for you.
Borland as a company pretty much was born when Jerry Pournell wrote about how great this cheap Pascal compiler called TruboPascal was. Borland to a loan for their first full page ad based just on that column.
Now that would be considered not legit but at the time no one minded. Truth is that his reviews where brutally honest and very good.
Windows does have the ability to block the USBs at the OS level.
Another quick question for you.
How the heck does this code get run?
Putting a mass storage device into a machine shouldn't run code unless you have auto run turned on.
Wouldn't you disable the USB slots at the BIOS or OS level as well.
Also wouldn't autorun have to be turned on or something!
Just sticking mass storage in a drive shouldn't cause an infection.
Or is this some really nasty hacked file system exploit.
Actually all reactors go critical. That is how they run. I assume you mean have and excursion or some other catastrophic failure.
It is very possible and frankly it makes Rickenbacker's policy about computer controls seem like a very good idea.
At this point we should just rename this thing the Cylon worm and be done with it.
I have never used a PLC but this seems like you would have to know a lot of inside information to target something.
How would the worm know if an input tied to turbine RPM or if it is some other device?
Do specific inputs on a PLC got specific ports?
Or do you just have generic A/D and GPIO ports?
Not really if you look at the war powers enacted during WWI and WWII these are pretty tame.
Also no it is just making excuses.
Thing is that for all I know Obama and Bush did and are doing the right thing involving some of the surveillance. I for one still really want court orders to be required but that is just my opinion.
What gets me is the buck passing. Obama is president now. He has made no public effort to repeal or reduce the powers given the government under the Patriot Act.
If you think that is wrong then blame Obama for not doing it. Do not try and keep blaming Bush for what Obama is doing now.
If nothing else he will get hired by CMU or some other major university. Just to have him. Maybe Google even if he did say they are a little creepy.
Si elles viennent d'avoir un sens de l'humour.
"Not giving content away is ignorant. Putting DRM on it is just plain stupid. Nobody ever made a sale by insulting prospective customers."
Giving away a few tracks works. Giving away everything is risky. It may work but it way risky.
I 100% agree about DRM.
"It can easily be argued that they showed him the way, as it were."
Yeah sure.....
I hope that it hits France. I hate the French.
Welcoming is one thing. Writing checks is another.
Open Office is in big trouble.
Sun provided most of the money for this project and now that is gone.
How will OO.org get funding? Firefox/mozilla gets it from Google search.
Without some revenue Open Office is going to be in a world of hurt.
I do not think that is even fair to say about Microsoft.
The IE 9 looks pretty interesting. Everyone is jumping on the HW acceleration for browsers now.
Zune Pass is also interesting. If Microsoft had created an app store and SDK for the ZuneHD I would have gotten one.
The 360 is very popular and had NetFliz streaming for a while now.
Microsoft does do some cools stuff. The problem is that they are now acting like a drunk elephant.
Apple in some ways I find to be sad. I so wanted an Apple II back when I got my C64. It was a real computer and had slots and everything.
IMHO Apple needs to bring back some of the spirit of the other Steve.
I would love for them to open up the specks on the new IPhone/Ipod doc so hackers can make their own devices for them.
But they are a consumer company now and not a hacker company.
Not really. As the publicity and mindless fandom increases so will narcissism. Also people can and do get feed up with dealing with a jerk after a while. I suggest you read the story.
Slightly more complex? Not really. A lot more paranoid? Yes.
Let's go right to cars.
I bet if you couldn't up all the coverage about cars you will find that Porsche, Ferrari, and Bugatti get a lot more press than they should based on market share.
That is because people are interested in them more than Chevy's and Kia's.
If you look at models you will see that that there is a lot more coverage of the Mustang than the Focus even though the Focus probably out sells the Mustang 10 to 1.
When you look at computers it is also much the same. You just don't see a lot of coverage on low end Dells and HPs.
It is all interest driven. A lot of it is also we are interested in what we don't have.
I really don't need to read about Windows XP or Windows 7 much. I use them everyday.
I do like reading about Supercomputers, BSD, and VMS because I don't have them to play with.
So no Apple does interesting stuff and do not produce commodity PCs. Apple is more in the BMW range than say Ferrari or Bugatti IMHO but Microsoft is Kia or maybe Honda.
BTW being Kia or Honda isn't a bad thing. It just isn't all that sexy and interesting.
Wow the idea that Assange is narcissistic is so abhorrent to you that you first reaction is that the US government got to them.
This is the worst kind of hero worship. If you keep this up there can only be two results.
1. I life of mindless devotion to Assange.
2. Deep depression when you finally find out the Assange isn't perfect.
I suggest you read the story first. Even if you think Assange is right then it comes down to a simple battle of egos which Assange as a leader didn't handle correctly IMHO. And that is the best case for Assange.
Assange I feel that Assange is a publicity hound and shows no journalistic integrity.
That is my take on things you are of course free to disagree.
I never said that the content providers are without fault.
I have a friend that married a very nice man from Norway.
She now lives in Norway with her husband and two kids. She would love to use Hulu. She would love to watch some of th shows from her childhood and new shows in English but she can not.
Yes things like region coded DVDs and everything else they do is just dumb and out of date.
I would love to watch BBC on my PC at home. I get BBC america on my TV but that isn't the same.
You will get no argument from me. If the networks offered the shows for free with commercials over the internet and offered to sell them for .99 for DRM I think piracy would be just stop or be so small as to not matter.
But they just don't get it.
What we all really want is to go back to the good old days in the US. We want commercial TV for free just like we used to get OTA.
Well several sites let you stream it with commercials for free. Hulu and TV.com
DVDs didn't have rootkits that was CDs and I do agree DRM sucks. If I pay for the DVD I should have the option to rip it and make a backup.
But the legal and ethical choice is to not watch it if you don't like how they are selling it.
Just taking it show that it does have value to you. So much value that you will break the law to get it.
That means to get the max profit they need to not drop the price but increase the penalties.
Actually they where really good.
I find the misses interesting. Every technology at some point seems to become the darling and then it becomes mature and boring in short order.
They had extremely high hopes for ships two days to cross the Atlantic but very little for aircraft.
If you go to the late 1940s you will see them predicting Mach 3 airliners or rockets to Europe but nothing really about computers and the video phone was the best telecomuntions break through.
In the 1960s it was moon bases and Giant Electronic brains.
Today it is Biotech and Nanotech.
I wonder if we are over estimating or under on those.
My prediction is that Computers have reached mature and boring.