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How is it possible (even for a small town of only 4100) that one person can change the water composition for a decade without anyone noticing? Besides the healt
by V__ 4y ago
How is it possible (even for a small town of only 4100) that one person can change the water composition for a decade without anyone noticing? Besides the health implication, isn't this a huge national security risk if there is no monitoring in place?
- toomuchtodo 4y agoNo governance, controls, or risk management over life critical systems. It’s everywhere, you just don’t know or see it until it fails.
- rejectfinite 4y agoYou think somebody checks? On anything, ever? The guy who did it was the water guy, not some random.
- im3w1l 4y agoThis is why we need to get actual meters and assays into the hands of the tinfoilhats.
- codyogden 4y agoMy parent worked at a water treatment plant in a small town. They could have easily screwed around with the chemical compositions without anyone knowing. Nearly anyone could have brute forced the control room: a single key/lock would need to be bypassed. There was no access control or logging to the room itself, and everyone who worked there had a master key to all buildings and facilities. Lab tests were done on site and were recorded manually, so they could easily just lie about the results.
- thatguy0900 4y agoReality is we're pretty lucky that terrorists are mostly exaggerated, and the ones that do exist are too mentally unstable to really make a good plan. Virtually no infrastructure has actual physical security in place. Especially when you start to think about modern consumer drone tech.