Basically, tell the hackers to pound salt up their a$$, get some folks in the field to monitor and operate the pipeline and then replace the existing system
Errrr! Nice try thanks for playing. The pipeline system is 100% on a computerized grid. The hacker compromised the passwords and changed them so they couldn’t do anything to get oil flowing because they shut down not only the primary but the secondary control of the valves. No real manual overide. They owned the pipeline. This can be 100% traced to corporate retards saving a buck for favoring computers over people doing the job. Now it cost them in the worst way.
Your explanation makes sense, but the inability to override what is basically manual system because of a computer network makes no sense to me.
This was a gas pipeline.
I’ve done security on oil pipelines in Iowa after the issues that occurred during the Dakota pipline fiasco. Pipeline ran under corn fields for miles, popped up at certain intervals at a valve and then went back underground for a few miles to another valve station.
Each station was “secured”, had a small shack with sensors and monitors to keep track of things.
This can be 100% traced to corporate retards saving a buck for favoring computers over people doing the job.....this can be traced to corporate retards that believe the young, liberal MBAs that promise them insane returns on investments and ignore everything you wrote about, who have no skin in the game and when things go to sh*t they just move onto the next job.