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eek2121yesterday at 10:21 PM2 repliesview on HN

Disagree. Why connect them to the internet? They should be super hardened against attacks, and should NOT have a physical connection to the internet. Same with electrical infrastructure. Network access? Possibly, however that network should NOT be accessible from the internet.

The only exception I can think of would be for meter reading, which should be a separate, read only device with no ability to do harm altogether.


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snypheryesterday at 10:41 PM

At a few of our sites, we have webcam-pointing-at-gauge. Deemed secure via air gap and simple to deploy.

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pixl97yesterday at 10:25 PM

People start freaking out at the costs of dedicated fibers to every monitored facility. Hence even 'private' networks still run over the same actual lines as the internet.

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