Comment Re:Application and driver compatibility (Score 1) 245
It is if you have operators and engineers that have any brains
But out here in reality, what operators and engineers have in brains they make up for by the absence of give-a-damn. Laziness can trump smarts every day of the week, and the path of least resistance is a damn fine malware vector.
that have any brains, There are tons
Speaking of brains... that's a comma splice. If English is your first language, please return to third grade to learn not to do that.
There are tons of CNC machines not being infected out there.
There were tons of numerically controlled machines out there infected by this very mechanism. The fact that it wasn't CNC machines this time doesn't mean it can't be CNC any time in the future. The attack is feasible.