If South Korea's nuclear plant staff are vulnerable, then so are the reactors
Tuesday, December 23, 2014 - 08:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Claude Shannon, who many consider the father of modern information theory, wrote a paper in 1949 in which he pointed out that security should never be based upon your enemy's ignorance of how your system is built. This is known today as the mantra: "There is no security through obscurity". Does it matter then that a South Korean nuclear plant was hacked and plans of the complex stolen? That rather depends on what happens next.