It’s circa 2001, and this pilot fish is at a site installing workstations in a control room — workstations that are intentionally isolated from the Internet.

“I realized I was missing a hardware driver for one of the I/O boards, so I asked my customer contact if I could use his PC to download the driver I needed,” says fish.

“Customer contact said yeah, it’s OK, use my computer, but don’t do anything stupid on it — we have monitoring software that will catch you and I’ll get in trouble because it’s my PC.”

Of course, fish says. And a minute or so later he has downloaded the driver he needs. But it’s in a .ZIP file — and there’s no utility on the PC to unpack it. OK, fish thinks, I’ll just do one more download: the free PKzip utility to open the archive. What’s that website’s URL?

To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

…