Things are hacked often with a specific facility or installation in mind. It could be as little has a handful and that'd be enough to compromise a lot.
I actually don't care what the truth [edit: truth of this specific BMRG story] is - the West needs a 'wake up call' on this one and any company installing hardware should be inspecting everything that comes in.
Too much lax security out there, sadly, the US gov I don't think is competent enough in this area to provide guidelines.
I wish there was a CIO right in the White House cabinet, who could work with the Valley + Security experts to provide minimum guidelines for everyone, and to make everyone aware of certain things.
I'm glad the internet was designed to be 'open first' but not glad it was designed to be almost inherently insecure as well. 'Open but Secure' by default would be nice :)
Because 'the truth of the Bloomberg story' is not important - what matters is 'what's actually happening' in the world. And this kind of hacking is definitely happening irrespective of how right/wrong the Bloomberg report is.
The United States spends 10's of billions of dollars spying on it's enemies. They hack, install spyware, require backdoors, use phishing, social engineering. So does China, Russia etc. and this is not a conspiracy.
I actually don't care what the truth [edit: truth of this specific BMRG story] is - the West needs a 'wake up call' on this one and any company installing hardware should be inspecting everything that comes in.
Too much lax security out there, sadly, the US gov I don't think is competent enough in this area to provide guidelines.
I wish there was a CIO right in the White House cabinet, who could work with the Valley + Security experts to provide minimum guidelines for everyone, and to make everyone aware of certain things.
I'm glad the internet was designed to be 'open first' but not glad it was designed to be almost inherently insecure as well. 'Open but Secure' by default would be nice :)