[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       nanog
Subject:    Re: BOTNET reference involving oscilloscope
From:       Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative ! net ! au>
Date:       2007-11-24 2:08:10
Message-ID: 20071124020810.GB28867 () skywalker ! creative ! net ! au
[Download RAW message or body]


On Fri, Nov 23, 2007, Leigh Porter wrote:
> 
> 
> We have a load of test kit here running Windows, it frightens me as it
> gets moved from lab to lab office to office and nobody runs anything on
> it to keep in check.
> 
> It's a sad sad world when you need anti virus software on your lab test kit!
> 
> I mean really, how screwed up is it to run Windows on a spectrum
> analyser and then leave everything open, on SP1 with no firewall and no
> patches and then go plugging it into peoples networks.

I believe a local university physics department had a STM (microscope)
running Windows 95 or Windows 98 + embedded stuff. The drivers broke whenever
you tried patching it away from the shipped software version.

The academics demanded that the device be accessible from everywhere so they
could drag/drop data files to/from other universities on the thing. With a
public IP address.






Adrian

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]