On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:14:59 CST, Brett Frankenberger said: > What if you air-gap the SCADA network of which you are in > administrative control, and then there's a failure on it, and the people > responsible for troubleshooting it can't do it remotely (because of the > air gap), so the trouble continues for an extra hour while they drive > to the office, and that extra hour of failure causes someone to die. > Should that result in a homicide charge?
If you designed a life-critical airgapped network that didn't have a trained warm body at the NOC 24/7 with an airgapped management console, and hot (or at least warm) spares for both console and console monkey, yes, you *do* deserve that negligent homicide charge.
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