ThatFuckingIdiot

Doesn’t his marriage not have a prenuptial agreement? If they get divorced he could be forced to transfer or unload a ton of his stock.

My Pihole couldn’t reach all the old NextDNS blocklists I subscribe to a few days ago. Makes sense now.

Bummer! Thanks for the heads up.

Exactly. Plenty of good reasons to have commercial / industrial sized equipment remotely accessible.

The blame lies with three parties: the manufacturer, the installing contractor, and customer’s IT admin. All are lazy bastards.

Manufacturers shit out these units for a year or two then never bother patching or updating the controllers or web-facing hardware, or making it effortless to do so via automated updates with save-stated reboots.

Installing contractors plop these units down, plug them in, then do the bare minimum to get them running and connected. That includes not bothering to change any logins or a single default setting. That’s what happened to all the French units with Danfoss controllers using the factory credentials. (It doesn’t help that most contractors are stupid as hell)

Customer IT does whatever is easiest to get these units online and stop the technicians from constantly bitching at them, so “password123” it is using a hilariously unsecure tunnel.

Combine these three sins with a bad actor and the results are self-evident.

*Can still function FOR A WHILE

The zombie of the federal government will still keep shambling forward until it doesn’t. Look at the Soviet Union.

When (not if) that happens because if this admin’s years of smash-and-grab active sabotage nothing is gonna magically improve for you and me.

I’m not exactly enthusiastic about the coming Tech Feudalism these guys are trying to build before our very eyes.

How fortunate we’ve mastered mining and refining precious metals from distant asteroids then…

Data centers in space are less feasible than solar roadways (remember that hype a while ago?). It’s an boondoggle meant excite idiots that can’t be bothered to think past a headline.