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> The only thing surprising about this is that we don't hear about it tenfold more. If you're someone who stands to gain from disrupting a nation's infrastruct
by 2bitencryption 6y ago
> The only thing surprising about this is that we don't hear about it tenfold more.
If you're someone who stands to gain from disrupting a nation's infrastructure... you don't tip your hand until it most benefits you.
If it really is the case that large parts of the infrastructure are very unsecure, expect to hear about it all at once, instead of little by little.
- munk-a 6y agoWater seems like a really weird system to sabotage though - power can bring businesses offline in a serious way but a city reservoir likely isn't supplying any businesses with a real need of water for any sorts of industrial needs... It's more of an inconvenience. Messing with chemical balances in particular seems like a prank or someone really twisted trying to give a bunch of folks long term health complications.
- devonkim 6y agoSometimes attacks are probes and discoveries meant to determine or validate efficacy of a set of attack vectors including but not limited to human assets. Other uses are for distractions from other efforts. And yeah, sometimes they’re pranks. It’s not clear with the given facts what’s really going on.
- vlovich123 6y agoYou can't cause a rash of serious short term problems that increase the load on your health care system? That would be pretty compelling from a terrorist perspective or for nation states trying to demoralize/reduce trust in the current government.
- TimothyBJacobs 6y agoDepends how long you can shut it down for. Even if only a few hours, an _unexpected_ shutdown of water across an entire city would certainly cause a panic with people descending on any stores open to buy water.
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