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King-Aaron • today at 7:35 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Nah small potato stuff.

I'm talking about cloning hmi platforms to send fake instructions to offshore oil platform valve bodies or insert false market trades to collapse companies.


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illwrks • today at 8:29 AM

Ah. So in that instance are those platforms not validating that the things submitting information are correct and true. A bit like a utility company needing to do manual reads every now and then to ensure they are getting a correct signal.

zrobotics • today at 12:40 PM

Or perhaps uploading faulty firmware to centrifuge controllers?