With my job being part of the IT department for a company who works on these things, I can tell you in no uncertain terms…
The issues of security are NOT in the big honking machines. The issue is in the WinXP machines that are in various states of unpatched, antiquated anti-virus installs, and thousands and thousands of pinholes in the firewall for things like… RDP and VNC.
These machines are not an issue of being hacked to make bad parts. All our parts are checked outside the machine with dial gauges and digital calipers before anything is sent to the client. So, even if they were being hacked… we would notice because all of the parts would be marked as bad… and then we could track down what did it–error on the machine (Unlikely) or error by the human operator/programmer… sadly, the latter is the most likely.
(THE WINXP THING HAS ME SCARED TO DEATH OF APRIL YOU GUYS HAVE NO IDEA)
