Something Horrible is Happening in Russia: Flights Grounded. Major Airlines Hacked - The Russian Dude

[Wonder Why]

7. American companies' systems are not a lot better. Allowing every employee to log into the company system from home

was not born of the Covid issue or the work-at-home advantage for employees. It was born of the idea that you are paid a salary and the company owns you 24/7 so when they need you (a lot more than you want), they can make you do a lot more work at home on your time. Now you can work all day in the office developing the new software then spending half the night fixing the bugs from home because they pushed it out the door before it was ready.

This is not new. It happened to me 40 years ago. it accelerated during Y2K. It's prevalent now. My son quit his company in January after 23 years because they constantly did that. Now he works for a small one that recognizes that there are problems so they stretch out the timeline instead of making your job all day at the office and all night at home.

Security is far more difficult when you open the doors 24/7 and anyone with anything that looks like a pass (i.e. every hacker who can break your terrible security) can walk in and do anything. Add to that, when time-to-market becomes Job 1 and quality and security are just considered money wasters), you get what you pay for.