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<blockquote data-quote="cptkrf" data-source="post: 1628508" data-attributes="member: 134861">Does anybody wonder (besides me) about the reason for critical systems (power, manufacturing, utilities, etc) being on the Internet in the first place?&nbsp;&nbsp; Especially now, after all that is happening, and all that has happened.&nbsp;&nbsp; And I might add, with all that is going to happen.I have heard the summations of reasons - that it is much more efficient to control a nuclear plant from an office in New York, rather than have to pay for expensive operators to stand by at each location.&nbsp; (Translation - it is much better for our bottom line, and the stockholders approve of any increase there.&nbsp; If it melts down - well, that’s a problem for the next quarter.)&nbsp;&nbsp; Or, our steel furnaces can’t be run profitably unless the minute by minute info is in the hands of our commodity traders.&nbsp;&nbsp; And so on.Note that I am not talking about changing to a secure OS from some version of Windows.&nbsp; There are none at this point that I would trust with my company (if I had one), although Redmond products would be at the very bottom of the list.&nbsp; And everyone else’s I would assume.&nbsp;&nbsp; Although, after reading about the use of that virus magnet in shutting down the French air force and the Royal navy a few years ago, I was sure that the story was an Internet hoax.&nbsp; It wasn’t.&nbsp; If I consider my years of professional and hobby programing files to be of enough value to me that I only access them on an internal network with no access to the world, it would seem that an electrical grid covering five states should have at least the equivalent value.Shouldn’t it?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cptkrf, post: 1628508, member: 134861"] Does anybody wonder (besides me) about the reason for critical systems (power, manufacturing, utilities, etc) being on the Internet in the first place? Especially now, after all that is happening, and all that has happened. And I might add, with all that is going to happen. I have heard the summations of reasons - that it is much more efficient to control a nuclear plant from an office in New York, rather than have to pay for expensive operators to stand by at each location. (Translation - it is much better for our bottom line, and the stockholders approve of any increase there. If it melts down - well, that’s a problem for the next quarter.) Or, our steel furnaces can’t be run profitably unless the minute by minute info is in the hands of our commodity traders. And so on. Note that I am not talking about changing to a secure OS from some version of Windows. There are none at this point that I would trust with my company (if I had one), although Redmond products would be at the very bottom of the list. And everyone else’s I would assume. Although, after reading about the use of that virus magnet in shutting down the French air force and the Royal navy a few years ago, I was sure that the story was an Internet hoax. It wasn’t. If I consider my years of professional and hobby programing files to be of enough value to me that I only access them on an internal network with no access to the world, it would seem that an electrical grid covering five states should have at least the equivalent value. Shouldn’t it? [/QUOTE]

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