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Old 10-21-10, 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted by mollusk
Today I was with a group of students making a presentation to Siemens. They had emailed the PowerPoint two days ago, but they made a few last minute editorial changes and they wanted to upload a new version. They then take out a thumb drive and stick it into a Siemens laptop to run the presentation. My jaw dropped. Wasn't Siemens implicated in the proliferation of Stuxnet? You'd think that there would now be a corporate-wide policy against any unknown USB drive ever contacting one of their computers.
I thought Stuxnet was more targeted at the Siemens-branded industrial control(?) networks that Iran was running..

But yeah I bet if their IT guy had been there he mighta said somethin!
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