[jschwartzi]

Not all of these things can be solved by a control system alone, at least not without a ton of investment in RFID and other auto-id infrastructure. Some human is still going to have to administrate your system, and he or she needs to be educated and trained, and they need to value security.

In the article's case, for example, they made it sound like the "hacker" basically conned someone into giving him access to the remote management interface. The only way you can fix a problem like that in software is to make the interface totally inaccessible.