Reply to post: Re: Yes, but that's not the point to learn from this

Siemens sighs: SCADA bugs abound

Dan 55 Silver badge

Re: Yes, but that's not the point to learn from this

It's SCADA, it's incompetence.

Before SCADA hardware was controlled over its own dedicated network which afforded some level of security (through obscurity) then some bright spark decided it would be a good idea to just to stick it all on TCP/IP. And so a field little prepared for security issues suddenly had to deal with them.

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