[logfromblammo]

Cyberwarfare can do a lot more than DDoS a router. Haven't you ever read the articles that pop up from time to time about Internet scans that find machines which should in no way ever be connected to the Internet, or even in the same room with a machine connected to the Internet? And then they try to log into those machines using the manufacturer's default passwords....

In short, critical infrastructure all over the world is being needlessly put at risk. The operators are placing their own knives across their own throats, and all a network-based attacker would need to do is jog a few elbows.

A few people might die. It's not like anybody is putting kill-bots out there, connected to the Internet, with an easily-toggled BERSERK_RAMPAGE flag (yet), but I think water treatment plants and electrical power grids are probably vulnerable to attack, and could cause some folks at the margins to die.