Your critical infrastructure bug won't be fixed and this is why
Water, electricity, transportation—all of them are critical infrastructures. In Germany, everything classified as part of a critical infrastructure has to conform to security and safety guidelines. I had some nightmares^Wexperiences with these in the past. And I decided to only work on projects classified as critical infrastructure if I could do defensive research, despite being a mostly offensive security researcher. This blog post outlines why offensive critical infrastructure research is a bad idea, and is also a long rant about an article that will be released in a German magazine on December 19th. Sorry for ranting!!!!1!11 Critical infrastructure security Critical infrastructure is regulated and has to follow various certifications. Disclaimer, I'm not an expert on this. However, certifications are both good and bad: Everything classified as critical infrastructure has to pass various tests, ensuring it is safe and secure. Such tests are limited in scope and prevent the abilit