23july2024
Re:Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-at...
on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @04:25AM (#50349817)
You're too optimistic. I work as consultant in industrial controls. I often get called for:
- "machine doesn't work!" It was set in the wrong mode. Who did it? No answer
- "machine doesn't work!" The HMI shows a huge message with "CHECK SENSOR AA-123" or "VALVE BB-321 CLOSED" and they are puzzled when you point it to them
See also the "PLC program changed itself!" in-joke in industrial automation circles.
The reality is that what you envisage "does not scale", to borrow from software engineering.
Re:Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @08:05AM (#50070351)
Oh, one of my pet peeves: "if it ain't broken don't fix it"? Then you're going to fix it when it's broken, everyone is screaming at you, there's little time, and cannot reason clearly ... what a stupid saying.
Re:SoftBank to buy ABB's robotics business in $5.4B deal
on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @09:02AM (#45515713)
Re:Thinking About Recipe Formats More Than Anyone Should
on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @08:16AM (#42125801)
There actually is the BatchML stardardized recipe format, even if it's a different kind of recipes I'm talking about. ISA-88 recipes for describing pharma/chemical batch production processes.
Re:SASE: Society of Automation Software Engineers
on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @05:25AM (#42124773)
If your work is adjacent to industrial automation, check this community out.
Albeit admittedly slowly, something new is cooking in that field.
TwinCAT PLC++: Next generation PLC technology
Re:Give Me the Green Light Part 1: Hacking Traffic Control Systems
on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @08:39AM (#41045334)
Part 2 article goes into a bit more of detail, but the funniest thing is that they requested access to the SNMP MIBs of the controller and never got them
> I requested MIBs from Q-Free but didn’t receive any follow-up after the request and I never received access to the MIBS, so it was back to square one.
Then you go look at https://www.freethemibs.org/advocates and... there they are, "advocates" for free MIB access. What clowns.