A farmer from Zug is hacked. One of his cows dies as a result

Post by netsharc » Wed, Aug 07, 2024, 1:06 PM UTC

robertlagrant wrote: post #6

komape wrote: post #2

English translation A farmer from Zug is hacked. One of his cows dies as a result - can a cyber attack now affect all farmers? Farmer Bircher refused to pay 10,000 francs to a gang. A cyber security expert says: "Agriculture is where the banks and insurance companies were fifteen years ago." Farmer Vital Bircher from Hagendorn in the canton of Zug receives a text message from his milking robot. It was no longer recei…

> Bircher says that the hacked computer was technically up to date: The farmer had only bought the device a year ago, it had Windows 11 installed and also an antivirus program People think this is sufficient. Microsoft has a giant marketing budget to ensure they never think differently.

Post by mike_hearn » Wed, Aug 07, 2024, 3:14 PM UTC

rightbyte wrote: post #3

komape wrote: post #2

English translation A farmer from Zug is hacked. One of his cows dies as a result - can a cyber attack now affect all farmers? Farmer Bircher refused to pay 10,000 francs to a gang. A cyber security expert says: "Agriculture is where the banks and insurance companies were fifteen years ago." Farmer Vital Bircher from Hagendorn in the canton of Zug receives a text message from his milking robot. It was no longer recei…

So IoT killed his cow. "The Zug farmer Bircher was lucky that certain parts of his milking systems were disconnected from the computer. He was able to continue milking his livestock despite the hacker attack." Don't connect important machines to the internet... all these hacker stories comes down to the same fundamental mistake. If not as a privacy and rent seeking nightmare. You are in reach of every hooligan in the…

Post by zappchance » Wed, Aug 07, 2024, 4:53 PM UTC

robertlagrant wrote: post #12

3np wrote: post #7

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The SaaSification of something that should have been a product.

But that's nothing to do with rent seeking. Rent seeking is getting the government/a regulator to mandate the use of your service.

Post by Log_out_ » Wed, Aug 07, 2024, 5:00 PM UTC

skyyler wrote: post #10

pleasecalllater wrote: post #9

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Nope. It's the opposite way. The cow produces so much milk, because it's milked so often. In normal world, cow produces milk for the children, and when they drink less and less milk, the cow produces less and less milk. In the not normal world (aka the farm) cows are inseminated almost every year, the children are taken away (causing shock in children and mothers) then cows are milked all the time. Then impregnated a…

https://unbottled.com/questions/what-happens-when-a-cow-need... The person you’re responding to actually knows what they’re talking about. It seems like you’re off an incorrect assumption that there are dairy cows in the wild. (“normal world”) Dairy cows are domesticated animals. They do not exist outside of the context of farms.

Post by robertlagrant » Wed, Aug 07, 2024, 5:29 PM UTC

zappchance wrote: post #15

robertlagrant wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But that's nothing to do with rent seeking. Rent seeking is getting the government/a regulator to mandate the use of your service.

There are other forms of rent-seeking; I believe a term that more narrowly fits your definition is "regulatory capture".