Maybe so, but the specifics suggest it was more like sending text messages when your phone was supposed to be in airplane mode and then remembering you still had WiFi. The engineers left the internet connected, didn’t realize it, and told the model to act as if it was offline when it wasn’t.
Mike YassWhile I am 0% interested in the specifics of this case, isn’t this how 99% of hacks work? Find a misconfiguration, grab some useful stuff and leave? It’s not always the full stuxnet