i don’t know pipelines from Adam and maybe this is a stupid question but ok i’ll bite:
i mean the suez canal was shut off by a supertanker blocking the canal itself. nothing to do but unblock the supertanker.
but in the old days they had pipelines right? with no computers right?
so, how is it possible to stop the physical flow and distribution of a material (for days and shutdown a whole region of the country) from a pipeline with a mere computer hack?
aren’t there mechanical backups, fail safes, alternate/manual valves and procedures in case of failed computers?
what if the grid went down? would the same thing happen? i just don’t get any of this, yet. but it stinks of people who have become so dependent on computers that they can’t act without them.
“but it stinks of people who have become so dependent on computers that they can’t act without them.”
Bingo.
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