A company desktop does not equal the Australian power grid. Its possible this virus would have disabled their remote control, but in no way should it affect the power. It seems rather insane not to have the operations network segregated from the enterprise.
I was going to say the same thing... The headline was misleading. The story has nothing to do with the power grid. It is misleading enough that the author should really consider correcting it (Or is Engadget going the way of the Enquirer?).
"A company desktop does not equal the Australian power grid."
Unfortunately it does.
If personnel can't use control system, that means that whole system is in endangered. Any system itself means very little without human controlling it. Especially power grid.
Imaging the situation where control system isn't accessible and some problem occurs. Automated "best" reaction in many cases is to disable part of the power grid (leaving lots of people without light) while for human it might take only a call to dispatch technician.
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A company desktop does not equal the Australian power grid. Its possible this virus would have disabled their remote control, but in no way should it affect the power. It seems rather insane not to have the operations network segregated from the enterprise.
I was going to say the same thing... The headline was misleading. The story has nothing to do with the power grid. It is misleading enough that the author should really consider correcting it (Or is Engadget going the way of the Enquirer?).
"A company desktop does not equal the Australian power grid."
Unfortunately it does.
If personnel can't use control system, that means that whole system is in endangered. Any system itself means very little without human controlling it. Especially power grid.
Imaging the situation where control system isn't accessible and some problem occurs. Automated "best" reaction in many cases is to disable part of the power grid (leaving lots of people without light) while for human it might take only a call to dispatch technician.