I’m bothered by the complete casual nature of his manufactured hyperbole and his ability to report his personal, highly biased inferences as fact.
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There are no reports, on Practical Machinist or any other machinist forums, of Mori using the ITAR lockout as a “business opportunity” to enforce financing arrangements. This scenario was entirely fabricated by Cory.
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The existence of the ITAR lockout does not, in any way, speak to the open, closed or opaque nature of the rest of the CNC control. Again, without any evidence, Cory infers that the addition of this one feature is indicative of some nefarious motive or structure. In reality, CNC controls are a replaceable, competitive component. Mori will be happy to sell you their machines with one of 3 other company’s controls. Really motivated owners can swap them out themselves (really motivated).
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Finally, the notion that a Stuxnet-like worm could cause a CNC center to - undetected! - start producing car parts that will kill you is just such unmitigated claptrap that it isn’t even really worth addressing. Basic knowledge of the manufacturing process would preclude this from ever happening.
I am truly disturbed by the ease at which Cory threw off the above points and reported them as fact. He takes a few facts presented in the PM thread and spins them into wildly unsubstantiated conclusions with no links to sources, no indication that he drew those conclusions from interviews or other discussion. It is almost as if he is suffering from a pathology that causes him to draw the most nefarious conclusions about a company’s motivations and believe them without question.
