Some gas station owners are falling victim to a sophisticated scam.

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  • Erasmus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I don’t know about that part. Just that it was all over the news when it happened here and I later read about the details as to how they did it.

    I would have assumed the makers of the pumps would had put into them a little tighter security but then again look at some of these password and other web hacks we routinely see.

    • WHYAREWEALLCAPS@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      There’s a convergence of issues. First, and probably foremost, users are idiots. So it has to be able to be operated by a 5 year with a learning disability. Second, implementing security costs money up front. It is cheaper to let the customer deal with the fall out, then do damage control on the cheap, and keep going. Third, users can’t be assed to access things that a 5 year old with learning and physical disabilities and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in one hand can’t access. These are all typical issues stuff is engineered towards. This is why you see this same basic issue crop up over and over again.

    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      You’d be surprised how many times “good enough” is considered “good enough” when it comes to IT and security, even when it’s really the bare minimum.