{"id":16145,"date":"2026-11-03T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=16145"},"modified":"2026-11-03T08:14:42","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T07:14:42","slug":"growing-incompetence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2026\/11\/03\/growing-incompetence\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Incompetence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/nov\/02\/supermarket-freezers-across-europe-hit-by-second-suspected-cyber-attack\">Shop fridges and freezers across Europe hit by fresh suspected cyber-attack<\/a>\u2026 incompetence is rampant. I was talking about this yesterday with my wife, and she, being the practical woman she is, said, \u201cThe first thing to do would be to disconnect the freezers from the Internet.\u201d Wise woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUnplug that damn network cable from the freezer!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it seems the geniuses have actually installed 4G\/5G modems inside them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unplugging them from the network seems too difficult\u2026 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Idiocracy\">Idiocracy<\/a>\u201d is on the march\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In any case, the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acn.gov.it\/portale\/w\/misure-urgenti-di-verifica-e-mitigazione-per-operatori-della-distribuzione-alimentare-e-della-filiera-del-freddo\">National Cybersecurity Agency<\/a>\u201d (to quote Vannini, \u201cCan you hear the quotation marks and the \u2018y\u2019?\u201d) has come out with this \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acn.gov.it\/portale\/w\/misure-urgenti-di-verifica-e-mitigazione-per-operatori-della-distribuzione-alimentare-e-della-filiera-del-freddo\">Urgent Verification and Mitigation Measures for Food Distribution and Cold Chain Operators<\/a>\u201d document (in Italian) which, for heaven\u2019s sake, are all perfectly valid points, but frankly, it strikes me as a bit of a \u201cstate of the obvious.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Shop fridges and freezers across Europe hit by fresh suspected cyber-attack\u2026 incompetence is rampant. I was talking about this yesterday with my wife, and she, being the practical woman she is, said, \u201cThe first thing to do would be to disconnect the freezers from the Internet.\u201d Wise woman. \u201cUnplug that damn network cable from the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2026\/11\/03\/growing-incompetence\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mood"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6daft-4cp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":492,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2015\/06\/28\/growing-your-virtualbox-virtual-disk\/","url_meta":{"origin":16145,"position":0},"title":"Growing your VirtualBox Virtual Disk","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2015-06-28","format":false,"excerpt":"Most people simply had to deal with proprietary software that more or less runs exclusively on Microsoft OSes. 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