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> The attacker demonstrated intent and capability to inflict public harm. This is if you take the facts in this story at face value. In my mind, if someone ca
by credit_guy 6y ago
> The attacker demonstrated intent and capability to inflict public harm.
This is if you take the facts in this story at face value. In my mind, if someone can raise the level of a chemical to become dangerous, you already have a problem. 11000 ppm sounds huge to me (1.1%). What if instead of an external hacker you had an internal disgruntled employee. What if you had a leaky gasket. The system should have some multiple redundancies to not allow a dangerous level of a chemical to end up in the water supply.
- enraged_camel 6y agoIt's easy to say that, of course, but the fact of the matter is that designing systems with multiple redundancies is difficult and expensive.
- __blockcipher__ 6y agoYeah, and it’s not like a city water supply is the type of thing where such expenditure would be justified! (I recognize you also mentioned the difficulty, I just wanted to poke some fun :P)
- mypalmike 6y agoThe reports on this incident have all stated that there were indeed multiple redundancies that helped prevent the high level from being actualized.