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A lot of water infrastructure is physically spread out. It be very expensive and cumbersome (and probably inefficient) to require staff to by physically presen
by lokar 2mo ago
A lot of water infrastructure is physically spread out. It be very expensive and cumbersome (and probably inefficient) to require staff to by physically present at each site for monitoring and making any changes.
- grebc 2mo agoThat’s fine. It’s compromised. Happy with that?
- lokar 2mo agoOr connect them securely
- kelnos 2mo agoNo such thing. There are levels of security, where higher levels mean more cost. And even with the most secure facility, there are no guarantees. And certainly we don't have the funding to provide that level of security for every single facility.
- lokar 2mo agoA well designed and deployed VPN link from the satellite location back to HQ (to machines isolated for just this use) would be orders of magnitude safer then what they seem to have been doing, and a reasonable compromise between security and utility.
- grebc 2mo agoIt’s most definitely a compromise. Just not what you think. You can keep saying it’s more secure than currently, and that’s good and all. It still doesn’t matter against the adversaries being mentioned.
- gopher_space 2mo agoI mean first you need to figure out the cost of a large municipality getting stuxnetted, and then you need to figure out where to hide when your constituents find out you made that kind of call.
- AngryData 2mo agoIts not like we lack the labor to do it. Plus how many years or decades of wages for someone to stand around would be required to exceed the cost of infastructure going down even just a few days?