Live data from Hacker News

Stuxnet's Secret Twin

foreignpolicy.com

11–20 of 61 posts

Re: Stuxnet's Secret Twin

#12
This is incredibly interesting and extremely important. It has clear implications for infrastructure and security, particularly energy infrastructure which I am most interested in.

This is the future of war.

Re: Stuxnet's Secret Twin

#17
Serious question:

Why THE FUCK are industrial controllers connected to the Internet still running Windows?

What is going on here? Why did anyone ever think this was a good idea? Your customers may use Windows, but you don't code your site as a batch script ...

Re: Stuxnet's Secret Twin

#18

Serious question: Why THE FUCK are industrial controllers connected to the Internet still running Windows? What is going on here? Why did anyone ever think this was a good idea? Your customers may use Windows, but you don't code your site as a batch script ...

If you'd bother to read the article, you'd know that the infection vector was not direct Internet access to the affected systems.

Re: Stuxnet's Secret Twin

#20
post #18

Serious question: Why THE FUCK are industrial controllers connected to the Internet still running Windows? What is going on here? Why did anyone ever think this was a good idea? Your customers may use Windows, but you don't code your site as a batch script ...

If you'd bother to read the article, you'd know that the infection vector was not direct Internet access to the affected systems.

The point stands.
Post reply on HN