http://www.element14.com/community/groups/black-box-network-services/blog Comment Feed for Black Box Network Services Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:45:30 GMT Jive SBS 4.5.7.1 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2011-10-06T20:45:30Z http://www.element14.com/community/groups/black-box-network-services/blog/2011/10/06/five-wireless-security-bandits#comment-10475 <!-- [DocumentBodyStart:856e775b-e826-48b9-95a9-828019d0d5c0] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Good post on wireless vulnerability.&#160; A lot of people fail to setup encrypted access for their home networks, which makes them vulnerable to exploitation.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>We need to continue to make people aware of the need for wireless security at all levels.&#160; There are bad people out there.&#160; We need to make thier crimes as difficult to accomplish as we can.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>DAB</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:856e775b-e826-48b9-95a9-828019d0d5c0] --> Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:45:30 GMT messages@element14.com http://www.element14.com/community/groups/black-box-network-services/blog/2011/10/06/five-wireless-security-bandits#comment-10475 2011-10-06T20:45:30Z http://www.element14.com/community/groups/black-box-network-services/blog/2011/10/03/5-ways-industrial-devices-are-different#comment-10436 <!-- [DocumentBodyStart:967e386e-d360-40d1-8d65-3c84e9eb5e26] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Having built equipment to military standards I can sympathize.&#160; I remember when a friend of mine had problems trying to get his TTL circuit to work after the temperature went below 32 degrees F.&#160; He had used standard TTL logic chips, not the industrial or military grade devices and some chips worked and some didn't.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>One item you missed was fungus, though I guess your reference to contaminants suffices.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>We once had a problem where the moisture in the air penetrated the coating on a circuit board and actually grew an very thin copper path between VCC and ground.&#160; It took us a long time to find this nearly microscopic short and even longer to figure out what caused it.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>No doubt about it, placing your electronics into real world environments is harmful to their health.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>DAB</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:967e386e-d360-40d1-8d65-3c84e9eb5e26] --> Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:14:40 GMT messages@element14.com http://www.element14.com/community/groups/black-box-network-services/blog/2011/10/03/5-ways-industrial-devices-are-different#comment-10436 2011-10-03T22:14:40Z