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A data diode can allow monitoring via the internet without risking ingress of control. Commercial units aren't cheap though. Obviously we need open source designs. Perhaps the easi…

If you could add a data diode to that mix, or just an offline PC and sneakernet, you could completely prevent egress of data from the machine you open said files on.

The people who owned our house before us were really into decorative lawn borders, expensive ferns, etc. They spent so much money on it, that they neglected the mortgage, which is …

It's smaller than an actualization of the Memex, that's for sure. It's been 80 years since it was seen as a good solution to the greatest problem facing science at the time. 80 yea…

> only takes one PLC engineer to connect the two sides of the network for their own expedience The fuzzy way we depreciate the term Engineer shows up in situations like this. An ac…

I've noticed my daily search "is Mitch McConnell dead yet?" Keeps ignoring date bounds. I expect it'll get fixed in Tuesday after the special election date passes, and we finally m…

There are plug and play devices that do multiple flavors of SCADA, but as you've said, they aren't trivial, thus not cheap.

This is the closest analogy for what's about to happen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1893

The software stack is the hassle. Let's assume you want to monitor the SCADA system doing water treatment, or some other critical task, on an air-gapped network. You add server to …

That's way cool, but it won't take an enter from my phone as a carriage return. I'll try it from home later.

Strong agree... now if only there were a way to specify "text" followed by a non-alphanumeric character. Some words I need to find turn out to be prefixes. 8( Adobe acrobat has "ex…

Do be sure to get a firm grasp on electronics. Build a linear power supply, get a breadboard and Arduino, and just play with things. Make sure you understand how it all works. Lear…

>state and local officials throughout the country were on high alert for potential problems in vulnerable computers that are commonly used to monitor and adjust water quality, incl…

That lead to a missing video, but here is a copy from the Internet Archive (I think) https://web.archive.org/web/20240316181535/http://vurl.web.a...

Multilevel capability based secure Operating Systems are due for a resurgence thanks to the LLMs that make it obvious that ambient authority based systems aren't suitable for the m…

It's my long standing opinion[1] that we shouldn't accept any RAM that can be subject to random bit flips. Most of the mitigations are just security through obscurity. [1] https://…

The first attempt was with video, but she later switched to exactly that, a 19000 lines per second 2048 pixel line scan imager. It was augmented with 6dof acceleration/gyro sensor,…

You can thank Carl Edvard Johansson[1] for that, the inventor of the gage block.[2] He was the one who decided to make it a convenient value, according to Wikipedia[3] As a result …

Well, I used the 2 free questions, and it seems they both think cast strong doubt on "new physics" being hidden from the public. I'll never get my personal megawatt box. 8(

I did programming back in the days of MS-DOS. If you've got specific questions, I'm more than happy to follow up in replies. I thought AI safety was something we had decades to wor…

Who hasn't handed their phone to their kid at some point? This is a bad idea. It would be far better if the user could set the age dynamically, as part of a capabilities set, and t…

I'm hoping that I live long enough to read about and understand the new physics that's been hidden from us since before I was born. I strongly suspect it's for very practical reaso…

The cost of software has always been trivial, relative to the value it delivers. The real driving factor is support, and open source tends to be very extractive when it comes to su…

That's the "Cantillon Effect"[1] Cantillon suggested that inflation occurs gradually and that the new supply of money has a localised effect on inflation, effectively originating t…