Still attending S4 – and the quality of the speakers continues it’s lumpy lurching way towards the goal.
Currently watching Langner discuss Threat Modeling in SCADA — except he’s gone right off the bleepin rails.
I mean WAY OFF THE RAILS. Offensively off the rails.
How do you create a presentation which goes all Giuliani off the top and invokes 911 – continues with the Islamist threat – launches into a discussion of fatwa and right off into fantasy land.
I feel bad for Dale – this is double-plus-ungood.
Langner should not be listened to – he should not be given a stage – he’s propagating the same kinds of myths that pervade the “control systems engineers” world – that SCADA is too hard, that hackers aren’t interested, that the bad guys are on religious missions of hatred, that the war on moisture is ok.
He closed with a eulogy for Richard C. Rescorla of Dean Witter / Morgan Stanley who predicted the plane attacks on 911.
Sigh. I don’t want to forget what happened on that day in New York, but I refuse to live a life of fear. More people need to jump off the fear bandwagon.
The previous piece – on the plans for the mandatory PCTs for California by Grant Gilchrist of EnerNex – was quite good. I think that he may be in a position to do good things – especially by having some people look at implementation level issues.
[tags]S4, SCADA, Langner, EnerNex, PCTs, bad advice, sycophant[/tags]