Because it's a standardized text file in a standard location, it's quite easy to add a black box monitor of the file and alert if the values change. If anything

Because it's a standardized text file in a standard location, it's quite easy to add a black box monitor of the file and alert if the values change. If anything, mucking around with the file is the last thing hackers want to do, because it would tip off the operators that there had been a breach, that the operators otherwise would not have noticed.