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Comment by King-Aaron | Hacker News Reader

No, I am not talking about "taking over" companies and trying to emulate them and do business yourself. You just need to be able to break trust in the api calls and no one knows if a purchase order or transaction is legitimate.

Obviously you need to have access to the keys, BUT I don't see this as a dealbreaker anymore because you just get your agents to go and find them.

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I think you’re saying ‘being able to do this means the opportunity for more fraud, by producing fake XYZ as proof’.

Photoshop has been around for around 35 years, fraud has always been an issue. There are plenty of reports of people selling things via Facebook marketplace and the ‘buyer’ showing them sending a payment on a fake baking app. Fraud will always exist and I don’t think tech will make it worse, everyone needs to be more cautious and tells friends and family to be the same.

Nah small potato stuff.

I'm talking about cloning hmi platforms to send fake instructions to offshore oil platform valve bodies or insert false market trades to collapse companies.

Ah. So in that instance are those platforms not validating that the things submitting information are correct and true. A bit like a utility company needing to do manual reads every now and then to ensure they are getting a correct signal.

Or perhaps uploading faulty firmware to centrifuge controllers?

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