[Info-vax] OpenVMS x64 Atom project

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/4/2021 2:11 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 6/4/21 2:02 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> Anybody that stores important data on an internet facing system is 
>> just asking for it to be "shared".
> 
> In an academic environment systems facing the Internet are a way
> of life.  They can be seucred as can the whole environment.  But
> that doesn't change the fact that systems not needing to face the
> Internet shouldn't.  And things like SCADA systems controlling
> things like gas pipelines, water systems or electrical grids fall
> into that category.

The problem is that not internet-facing is not the same as
not attackable via internet.

The indirect route is common today.

The Iranian SCADA systems controlling uranium enrichment centrifuges
was not on the internet, but StuxNet got through anyway.

Arne