Re:Hacker increased chemical level at Oldsmar's city water s...
by mypalmike on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:35PM
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The reports on this incident have all stated that there were indeed multiple redundancies that helped prevent the high level from being actualized.
Re:Hacker increased chemical level at Oldsmar's city water s...
by enraged_camel on Monday February 08, 2021 @08:19PM
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It's easy to say that, of course, but the fact of the matter is that designing systems with multiple redundancies is difficult and expensive.
Re:Hacker increased chemical level at Oldsmar's city water s...
by __blockcipher__ on Monday February 08, 2021 @08:24PM
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Yeah, and itβs 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)
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.