8 Jan
2013
8 Jan
'13
3:38 a.m.
On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 03:24:36PM -0800, Chuck Guzis wrote:
One aspect of a computer virus is that there must be a
means to
propagate the thing--not something that you'll easily find in old 8-bit
industrial equipment.
Every Ye Olde piece of computerised industrial equipment I've seen has
some way of getting data into it, most have some way of getting data out
and many have some way of updating the software on them. Often it's
just a serial port that speaks some proprietary protocol, but having a
floppy (carefully protected from airborne oil and dust!) is pretty
common.
--
David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig
The Law of Daves: in any gathering of technical people, the
number of Daves will be greater than the number of women.