“We were able to make the device completely inoperable by preventing a local operator from controlling the drill through the onboard display and disabling the trigger button."
So, like, the guys who are holding the wrenches all day to begin with?
Even so, none of the examples anyone has come up with in this thread have required having the friggin’ things connected to the internet. That’s our beef here. Not necessarily networking capability.
In fact, back when I was in automation (in the dark ages of ~2008) it was already considered unthinkable not to air-gap all of your mission critical production equipment. A ton of that stuff was networked, sure (and you’d shit a brick if you saw how much of it is still interconnected with RS-485 serial…) but not exposed to the outside world in any capacity. Nor would anyone want it to be, for obvious not-getting-pwned reasons.
So, like, the guys who are holding the wrenches all day to begin with?
Even so, none of the examples anyone has come up with in this thread have required having the friggin’ things connected to the internet. That’s our beef here. Not necessarily networking capability.
In fact, back when I was in automation (in the dark ages of ~2008) it was already considered unthinkable not to air-gap all of your mission critical production equipment. A ton of that stuff was networked, sure (and you’d shit a brick if you saw how much of it is still interconnected with RS-485 serial…) but not exposed to the outside world in any capacity. Nor would anyone want it to be, for obvious not-getting-pwned reasons.