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Aside from being outdated advice, this is also globally impossible. Microsoft Windows has got a major lock on the industrial control systems industry. Almost a
by bdamm 8y ago
Aside from being outdated advice, this is also globally impossible.
Microsoft Windows has got a major lock on the industrial control systems industry. Almost anything being produced today has a Windows machine in the workflow doing something critically important, from monitoring fluid flows to running microchip programmers and test stations.
- magduf 8y agoThen people shouldn't be too surprised when stuff like this happens, and they should just pay the ransom: it's what they accepted by using Windows. "That's the way it's always been" isn't a valid excuse for continuing to make something unsafe.
- bdamm 8y agoThe advice is outdated because it is entirely possible for Windows machines to be secured well enough for this work. Windows security, like Linux security, is not a binary state with either a zero for no security or a one for security. They did not accept crippling ransomware by using Windows. Nobody does. This attitude is fatalistic and somewhat juvenile. They may have implicitly accepted crippling ransomware by not having sufficient internal security processes.
- olavgg 8y agoYou are right, but still using an operating system with such large attack surface like Windows is a worldwide industry problem. No one is saying Linux is much better either, but there are other solutions like IncludeOS(http://www.includeos.org/technology.html#security http://www.includeos.org/technology.html#security) which has a very low attack surface, if not 100% impossible. I'm not saying IncludeOS would work in this case, but secure systems has come a loooong way the recent years.