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Re:I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was... by ethbro on Friday March 11, 2016 @12:03PM (#11267798)
Maybe embedded network is the new javascript ecosystem: rediscovering novel ideas (like authentication!) that were invented 50 years ago.

/deploying CAN bus without security

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Re:I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was... by digi_owl on Friday March 11, 2016 @03:16PM (#11269183)
I wonder if what is blindsiding all of these companies and people is routing.

That if you have a box that can talk to network A and B, suddenly anything on A can talk to anything on B.

A CAN bus, or older modbus installs, would be airgapped by its very nature.

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Re:I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was... by brandmeyer on Friday March 11, 2016 @05:18PM (#11269952)
Just because its CAN doesn't mean its actually air gapped. If there is a Linux box on one end for SCADA use or similar, then the path is IP -> Linux spl01t -> SocketCAN
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