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Taking out a fuel pipeline in non-heating months seems a lot less likely to cause casualties than downing a power grid. Dead people get different responses tha
by galangalalgol 5y ago
Taking out a fuel pipeline in non-heating months seems a lot less likely to cause casualties than downing a power grid. Dead people get different responses than theft, even massive theft. Also, knowing how scary oil companies are, I wouldn't be surprised if some people turned up dead over the colonial hack. Even if they get the attribution wrong, a dead hacker group would have a chilling effect on such activities.
- publicola1990 5y agoAs per reports the ransomware had no effect in any of the physical pumping/operational systems required to pump/operate the pipeline, it only affected their billing system and they stopped pumping because later it would have difficult to reconcile the billing for it, not because the ransomware disabled the pumps.