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FWIW, in my country the historical ISP is pushing for a dedicated network for industrial and hobbyists connected devices. The pipes are already wired.
by johnchristopher 10y ago
FWIW, in my country the historical ISP is pushing for a dedicated network for industrial and hobbyists connected devices. The pipes are already wired.
- yorwba 10y agoCan you give more information? From your description, it sounds like "Let's limit possible DDOS targets for hacked things to just factories.", which doesn't strike me as a solution.
- goda90 10y agoPlus it leads to too much trust. One factory doesn't have good air gap policies and suddenly the whole network is infected because some designers trusted the network too much.
- neom 10y agoI recently did a small talk to some fortune CTOs who have sizable physical operations and logistics. Their heads exploded when I asked what the plan was for the 150,000 little computers they just placed on their LAN DDoSing the operational systems.
- kogepathic 10y ago> who have sizable physical operations and logistics As an outsider, I find that quite a strange reaction. I mean, when I ship something with DHL, Fedex, or UPS, they're able to give me (I assume) quite accurate tracking information. So clearly they already have a bunch of sensors in their sorting facility and trucks to monitor when a package has arrived/departed. From what I've heard of Amazon logistics centres, it seems that they would already have thousands of sensors there to scan, transport, label, etc items in the warehouse. But I do work with electricity utilities, where technologies like FTP and ModbusTCP are still considered cutting edge...
- neom 10y agoYeah, for sure not at that scale!!! I wish I was talking to their CTOs ;) Think 10-20MM a year in operating costs (small feet of trucks, few large facilities) - you're on the right track when you mentioned utilities. Even a business like $TWNK will likely have to think about this if they have not already. :)