BC
2008-12-19 15:14:24
To Control systems/Electrical/Chemical engineer:
While the control systems for things like power plants are indeed either very simple logic circuits or proprietary systems, the deregulation of the electric industry caused power plants to commodities to be bought and sold by private energy companies. The big issue here was that these energy companies wanted to be able to control and monitor their power plants remotely, so they ended up installing Windows-based systems to that effect will little or no thought of the security consequences. See:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2008052002354_pf.html
