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It's so bad out there Alex. Tanks are running around with hardcoded admin passwords and most devices use unencrypted, unauthenticated busses. Often multi-maste
by 3pt14159 8y ago
It's so bad out there Alex.
Tanks are running around with hardcoded admin passwords and most devices use unencrypted, unauthenticated busses. Often multi-master.
Why? Because it's easier.
That's it.
And for a while it was fine because bridgeware wasn't a thing and we hadn't started connecting everything to the internet.
- pjmlp 8y agoMorris Worm happened in 1988 thanks to C's "security features", yet little has been done, beyond putting band aids on top of band aids. Maybe I get to see some kind of "Safe C" actually being adopted in the UNIX world, before the 50 years' anniversary of the Worm.
- noir_lord 8y ago50 years from 1988 is 2038, I think we'll all be busy running around trying to figure out if we have anything still running on 32bit hardware ;).
- pjmlp 8y agoI was being sarcastic as I am sceptic about the industry at large actually caring about without a couple of massive lawsuits. Cheap always trumps quality unless there are some legal requirements going on.