> precise torque levels that are critical for safety and reliability This is why the thing is networked. Easier, more reliable, to pull that data (and then ve

> precise torque levels that are critical for safety and reliability This is why the thing is networked. Easier, more reliable, to pull that data (and then verify it was complied with) automatically from the network. In the most precision kind of work of that kind some decades ago, every bolt and hole would have a little sticker/tag on it, and there would be double-and triple-checked lists. And this is why the vulnerability is particularly alarming. An attacker who targeted and compromised a manufacturer using these could, I dunno, slightly alter all the bolts used on an airplane, in a very specific way, so it is prone to failure prematurely. These sorts of vulnerabilities have the same sort of potential for economic/national targets in a sophisticated (probably state-backed) attack, similar to that one which destroyed all those centrifuges in Iran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet