Posted on 02/08/2021 5:03:12 PM PST by nickcarraway
Authorities say a hacker gained access to a Florida city’s water treatment plant in an unsuccessful attempt to fill the water supply with a potentially harmful chemical
A hacker remotely gained access to a Florida city’s water treatment plant in an unsuccessful attempt to fill the water supply with a potentially harmful chemical, authorities said.
An unknown suspect breached a computer system for the city of Oldsmar's water treatment plant on Friday and briefly increased the amount of sodium hydroxide from 100 parts per million to 11,100 parts per million, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said during a news conference Monday. Sodium hydroxide, also called lye, is used to treat water acidity but the compound is also found in cleaning supplies such as soaps and drain cleaners. It can cause irritation, burns and other complications in larger quantities.
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and is such a place under totally automated control connected to the interwebs? ?
I distill my city water...
Yet Joe Biden passed an EO undoing President Trump not allowing the Chinese to sabotage the USA power grid.
good thing i’ve got a 400 foot deep well that’s tapped into the crystal springs for my water supply... 😁
Most everything is connected to the internet. Well, except for election systems.
:-)
Yep....we have several.
Your toaster is spying on you.
And if the hacker had succeeded, those in Florida would be hit with the claim that they died of the Chinese flu. We are dealing with evil and deranged people. It is not just about stealing the election.
When I saw the way you (I assume it was you) altered the headline, taking it out of sentence style, I thought the story was out of Florida City, FL, which is between Miami and Key Largo.
Hey, don't worry, I miss the days when headlines capitalized the first letter of almost every word, too. :)
ff
and no water bill every month...
Yup. Same here.
“At no time was there a significant adverse effect on the water being treated,” Gualtieri said. “Importantly, the public was never in danger.”
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There are safeguards in place to ensure the integrity of the election system.
I haven’t drank a drop of tap water anywhere for at least 8 years.
I only drink rain water and pure grain alcohol.
how much lye would you have to actually put in the water system for it to be a problem?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lye
might make the detergents work better.
Well, there are people who pee in the aqueduct that supplies water to Los Angeles.
For a variety of reasons.
The Commies can't get you that way!
Simple remedy... Get water treat it with lye to the same percent that he attempted and let him drink that for a few hours. There you have it, “Justice”.
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