Security Review – Fire Hydrants
This is a security review of a fascinating device known as a fire hydrant. To state the obvious, a fire hydrant is designed to allow certain city personnel (firefighters) access to high pressure water in the case of an emergency. They need quick access and proximity to the water, so hydrants must be scattered throughout the city (or campus). Because there are so many of them, they should be cheap to make and cheap to keep adversaries from tampering with them. (Read on …)