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> why industrial control systems had such abysmal security for as long as they did. Bold of you to use past tense there

• brookst 3y ago
  They've really improved a lot. They used to be abysmal, but all of the scrutiny and high profile attacks have forced vendors to invest in bringing them up to merely terrible.
  • jeroenhd 3y ago
    Vendors upgrading to simply terrible security doesn't mean their customers are protected. After all, why not use the opportunity to sell the Super Security Plus+ version of the existing hardware for a nice fee?
    • rickdeckard 3y ago
      Because the majority of your customers and you yourself sit in the working groups which created that "non-secure version" of the standard. Either your customer would disagree with the premise of the standard implementation being "insufficiently secure" or your contribution to security should be reviewed as an evolution to the standard. Result: Security is not being questioned in this realm of commercial discussion.