Hackers hit US water treatment systems

[Torplexed]

Well, if tampering with water treatment wasn't bad enough, wait until you read this article...

http://arstechnica.com/business/news...-from-afar.ars

Researchers have demonstrated a vulnerability in the computer systems used to control facilities at federal prisons that could allow an outsider to remotely take them over, doing everything from opening and overloading cell door mechanisms to shutting down internal communications systems.

Now HERE is something that really shouldn't be really shouldn't be connected to the net. Prison doors. SCADA systems are used for pretty much everything that requires motors and monitoring&control of larger plants those days. If they're online, they are all vulnerable.

Stupid. The convenience of controlling things remotely is gonna be our undoing.