[PLUG] Not the wisest comment on the Colonial break-in

[Floyd Johnson via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Upon learning about the apparent break-in and planting of ransomware on 
the systems of Colonial Pipeline, my gut reaction was, "How does someone 
hack a pipeline? Those aren't connected to any public networks, right?"

(*braces for it*)

This faintly reminded me of the difficulty we had setting up a Roomba a 
few months ago due to its lack of WPA2 capability. With a moment to 
think, I can almost understand the negative presumption about the 
consumer, essentially, "WLAN security provisions add unneeded cost, as 
John Q. Public doesn't bother with those."

As for Colonial Pipeline, I have only the foggiest idea what happened 
over there. At most, I can only presume they have better backup habits 
than mine, and are currently reloading everything up to just before the 
the malware got in.


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