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The margin is certainly blown, now

I can imagine that there's already an industrial security company at their door, offering a solution to prevent this from happening ever again, already tailored just for them.

Maybe it's even honestly not related to the attack.

The hardware vendor has long offered software updates. Unclear if the groceries were paying for support, they certainly weren't installing them.

Boeing still took the blame for MAX, when their customers didn't pay for training.

Boeing lied about the MAX. And at the end of the day,they built a plane with an automatic nosedive function.

> The margin is certainly blown, now

For (just?) this fiscal. By saving on IT costs in previous fiscal years they were perhaps able to book profits.

One incident every (say) decade or so may be determined to be worth the trade of between the costs of 'proper' IT practices and getting pwned (and the resulting spoilage) so they can book profits for the other nine years.

There is more than just fiscal reverie at play here. Real food was lost. You can't eat money and there is not an infinite supply of food. Actually France with this year heat waves saw also devasting results on many crops. Plus farmers have been one of the higher suicide rate for quite some time now, and there are obviously structural reasons to that.

Mercosur ain't gonna save the population from starvation if shipping cost start to reflect actual environmental, energetic and geopolitical impact, as the trend seems to go.

They probably have insurance for things like this. Speculation, but still. Lots of businesses mitigate risk by just buying insurance.

Insurance for cyber incidents usually only cover you if you took reasonable measures. Like not exposing your internal systems to the Internet.

If someone walks in and unplugs your refrigerator and causes you to lose all the stock in it, your insurance is going to cover you. You don’t need to show you locked the power sockets.

Many business insurance policies come with requirements for physical security, if you've skimped on them, you're not getting paid out.

It depends if they entered by forcing through some security facilities or the door was full open with a white on red panel "the plug is over here" and a big arrow pointing to it.

Most store doors are open much of the day

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