• Gormadt
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    8 months ago

    I work with heavy machinery (primarily tractors and forklifts) there’s no reason to have a modem connected to any of its systems.

    Tractors, forklifts, cranes, combines, etc don’t need such connectivity and having such features is a major security and (depending on it’s connectivity) a safety concern.

    Hell when our new forklifts arrived they had dash cams pre installed by the factory, the first thing our shop technician did was remove them due to security concerns.

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        8 months ago

        No, they didn’t put new ones on due to info sec reasons.

        Edit: We have a large amount of cameras in the building from specific vendors set up in very specific ways.

        None are wireless, none can be accessed from outside our network, and only very specific people have access to what they see.

    • @jacksilver
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      68 months ago

      Not exactly the same thing, but Jon Deere does put modems on all of their tractors so farmers can track where they planted what and where they applied what herbicides/fungicides/etc. It’s largely driven by having data driven agronomy and farming, but the general idea could easily apply to logistical applications.

      The real problem is why did no one know that it was being done.

    • @perviouslyiner
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      8 months ago

      Aren’t cranes connected to the port’s IT system so that they know which containers need unloading?

      • Gormadt
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        28 months ago

        I’d assume so (much like our forklifts) but that system should be fully independent from the control systems. That system should only have WiFi connectivity, set up in such a way it doesn’t call out to (or gets exposed to) the Internet as a whole, and that system should be fully documented for the IT staff, there should be zero unknowns.

        Not to mention the level of logging on those systems for proper info sec should be quite extensive.