2026-10-17 07:51 UTC
Hacked? This term applied to this is an insult. The user name was “admin”, and the password changed daily - it was the current date.
This is not hacking, this is a complete and utter failure on behalf of the company who set this up, and their fault entirely.
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@HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2026-10-17 10:41
You are right. But also, authentication in a distributed industrial infrastructure is hard, and it is not really a solved problem. You would need to set up a public key infrastructure, giving each shop clerk, service worker, and manager a smart card, revoking them when they leave, recover lost access credentials, and so on. For every class of devices. And it gets even more difficult if you want machines to securely talk with each other (think in administering every smart home thing un your house with a smart card…).