The NSA Chief Told You to Keep Water Systems Off the Internet. He Missed the Point.
The ex-NSA chief’s warning to keep water systems off the internet misses the real problem: the legacy industrial controllers that were never designed to face network-level adversaries. The ‘air gap’ is a myth—insecure RF links, Bluetooth, and supply-chain vulnerabilities bypass it. The hardware is fundamentally untrustworthy, and no amount of unplugging will fix that.