re: “Why are the operations of this pipeline subject to a cyber attack? The pipeline was constructed long before the internet existed”
Because, Dunning-Kruger, you’re making the same stupid assumption everyone else is, that the PIPELINE HARDWARE was attacked, and instead, it is the FRONT OFFICE ‘computers’ that are responsible for dispatching the quantities ordered/scheduled AND the associated billing that were attacked ...
I know the physical pipeline itself was not attacked. I know it is the computer system which operates the pipeline which was attacked. What I don’t understand, is how this pipeline operated before the internet was invented, and why such computerized operations are online the way they are.