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sandworm101yesterday at 3:49 PM2 repliesview on HN

Not really. A properly designed network should take account for such things as unknown/irreparable flaws. An irreparable backdoor in a device can be mitigated with a gatekeeper, something akin to a firewall that will not allow a threat actor to have access to a faulty device.

The real recklessness would be allowing an ATM unfettered access to the internet on the assumption that the manufacturer has already protected the device from every known and unknown threat.


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essephyesterday at 8:49 PM

I was basically going to quote your whole statement here and then point to the more than 19 US states that have had Water Treatment plants forced to disconnect much of their Operational Technology systems.

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michaelmroseyesterday at 6:06 PM

Both can be negligent at once.