[AnimalMuppet]

You want much of the conversation to happen here, not in email. The magic is in people replying who weren't you or the top-level commenter.

My two cents: Embedded systems don't usually get managed like computers, so their updates happen slower (or not at all). When a new exploit is announced, IT races to patch the computers, but often doesn't think of the embedded systems.

Worse, the embedded system manufacturer may be more likely to go out of business than the computer manufacturer, and almost certainly is more likely to go out of business than the OS vendor. Updates simply may not be coming for the embedded system, so it may remain vulnerable forever.

[mlmitch]

Fair enough regarding the conversation happening here. There can definitely be positives to it. The reason I ask for email is that it’s hard to gauge peoples backgrounds (and the value of the information they provide) without a more intimate and in-depth conversation.

I generally agree with the impression you gave. When you say “IT … doesn’t think of the embedded systems”. Do they actually not think of them? Or is there just not much that they can do at the moment so there isn’t much effort put towards it?

Maybe there’s some other compensating strategy being used like very intense network segregation for embedded devices because of the current state of affairs?