You DO have unlimited data......

Just not at unlimited speed

Am I missing something here?

A lot of newer DCS gear is starting to have process firewalls being build in to the hardware at the controller layer. Also a change I've seen of late is that a lot of vendors software no longer runs ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING at a privileged level as has been done in the past!!!

This should reduce the attacks on the PLC devices themselves, however the protection of the SCADA/DCS Servers (usually Windows Based) relies on GOOD system administration and knowledge about possible attack vectors..

Anything that straddles a corporate and process network NEEDS to be hardened, however more often than not this is the weak point (Process historians and other servers that provide end-user data are the biggest risk)

I've seen windows 2000 machines that are on both networks running 2000 SP1 and no later security patches THIS YEAR (Not a practice recommended by the vendor either, this was a customer who 'knew better').... lets also mention that it also had a VERY easy to guess Admin password!

Tis a scary world.

Most vendors have best practices for keeping nasties off the process networks, it's usually the customers who compromise to make their own life easier. Usually decisions made by the onsite IT people who, lets be honest, have NO idea about how/what a process system does. I work across many large sites and in general the IT people do not understand what is required and tend to be the ones who punch the massive holes in the firewalls to get things to work.

The vendors (I work for one) are now catching up by hardening things better at the hardware and software levels, but it's the legacy stuff that scares the bejeezus out of me!!!

Biggest SINGLE customer maybe, but the sum total of all the others would surely outweigh that

I don't see this result

Perhaps Google is tailoring it to YOUR needs based on your web search history? :-)

(I am joking of course..... or am I?)

The iPhone problem is nothing new and has been in all iPhones to date and non-iPhones I owned prior. Apple is a big name so people make a big deal out of everything they do. They get a lot of free press/hype when things are good and when things are bad it can quickly turn around.

APPLE make the big deal about their products. THEY create the expectation through their wall to wall marketing blitzes and so on.

If Jobs wasn't such a smug douche about these things there wouldn't be half the fuss there is today IMO

Now we know who to block to avoid those douche "Sent from my iPad" email footers

I have taken to replying to ANY of these with a "Sent from my Combine Harvester" or similar thing back.

We don't care about your toy. And while we are at it, do you have to mention your iPad in every tweet and email? sheesh.

Sorry. Been a long day.