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Comment by madcows | Hacker News Reader

What's with all the cyber attacks on US infrastructure?

I hope this is because of a self hardening mechanism and not what it looks like, continued assault by adversaries.

It's because none of it is secured, and the US has a shit load of infrastructure that all has its own independent systems. Even a tiny percent being hacked per lifetime will be constant hacks in the news.

None of it was on the internet 30 years ago and we survived. All it takes is responsible corporate leadership to fix this problem.

Theory: running the same system in pre-internet style would add overhead in salaries and delays that's more costly than being down for a few weeks after a hack.

Independent systems have their own problems but also benefits. The trendy word for this is ‘decentralized’. IMHO, I’d prefer we don’t have one big system. At least when the pipeline was shutdown it didn’t affect the entire country.

Posted this on the related thread on the front page: Klaus Schwab of the WEF “predicted” this a year ago [1]. Either the WEF and other NGOs are incredibly prescient on a number of unrelated issues, or we may be getting taken for a ride. [1]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0DKRvS-C04o

I imagine it happens everywhere, but tends to make bigger news in the US. You can still find industrial control systems exposed to the internet with password free VNC...

It's because the US and Europe have shown there aren't any repercussions to defrauding their governments or their citizens.

Because it always pays

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