After the pipeline got shot down, it got me thinking about our electrical grid. If they managed to sit it down for just a few weeks, the damage and loss of life would be catastrophic. Why on earth are these systems even accessable to anyone outside this country?
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Note that it was a FINANCIAL decision by the company management to shut down the pipeline NOT AN OPERATIONAL hack of the pipeline equipment itself.
The pipeline was shut down by the management of the company. The hackers did NOT directly take control of any pipeline operations and actually shut down the pipeline. I don’t recall the exact show/segment, but NPR had a very informative interview about this incident describing the events and that the management shutdown the pipeline due to the economic risk of losing millions/billions of dollars if they continued to operate while they didn’t have control of the data that the hackers managed to control.
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