Comment by makeitdouble
5 hours ago
That class of risk was just theoretical for decades, so the price on it was basically 0.
Now that we see large scale incidents will there be an actual money value associated with upgrading systems and security for supermarket appliances.
and the price of everything will go up as well to pay for it. Your $2 bag of flour becomes $4 because of security costs
I think it's fair that the price up until now has been mostly zero. On the other hand you can 10+ years of examples on HN of people saying these types of threats with IoT devices and internet connected industrial hardware are not theoretical and it's shocking they weren't being exploited more often.
I can find 10+ years of examples on HN of people saying all kinds of stuff, and it's shocking how outlandish that so much of it is.
It will shortly become a national security issue.
Russia is feeling the pain of having their warehouses blown up.
There will be tons of budget for having things ‘blow up’ themselves.