After the pipeline got shot down, it got me thinking about our electrical grid. If they managed to sit it down for just a few weeks, the damage and loss of life would be catastrophic. Why on earth are these systems even accessable to anyone outside this country?
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Its because legacy systems created by aged software developers. The most popular scada software are poorly developed, written in ancient languages, have memory leaks and poor error handling, and it runs on old bloated versions of Windows which are not well suited for stability.
So remote access for on-call support to fix issues becomes a requirement, and given the severity of the the pipeline ceasing operation we dont want to wait for people to go on-site to fix things.
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