Why “PLC” is being discussed
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I'm not assuming anything. I'm saying that's what you do in order to solve the issue. You have to actually try , and you have to do actual engineering. If the local planning com…
by lenerdenator · Sep 1, 2026
Running certbot on your web server is easy. Running certbot on a random PLC isn't happening.
by tgsovlerkhgsel · Sep 1, 2026
Oh I wish that was possible. Fact is if the customer wants to put their worksite management on AWS, you inevitably expose the OPC server and/or PLC to a Intranet. This is t…
by Prickle · Sep 1, 2026
The Stuxnet PLCs weren't touching either, though. The worm was designed to jump across network air gaps via USB flash drives, and spread across isolated networks to other hosts.…
by crote · Aug 31, 2026
Also, the one thing that's important above all else in industrial automation is reliability. If your LLM doesn't know about one tiny little detail that ends up causing your prod…
by ktm5j · Aug 31, 2026
> In all fairness, the people who are experts in the field of Siemens PLC programming are usually mechanical-ish engineers and security is not in their skill set or on their min…
by lenerdenator · Aug 31, 2026
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