Exactly!
AT THE VERY LEAST, the pipeline control system ought to be an ENTIRELY SEPARATE network, with ZERO internet connectivity.
AT THE VERY LEAST, the pipeline control system ought to be an ENTIRELY SEPARATE network, with ZERO internet connectivity.
Like a Dominion voting machine.
Yes, there should be a much isolation as possible, but going w/o
access to the internet...
Do you think it would be a good idea to have the ppl go back to control by radio? That was one of the ways it “used” to be done.
This isn’t the 30s or 50s, or even the 80s.
How else are you going to connect 100s or even 1000s of miles of pipe and more importantly valves, sensors, and timing devices together to coordinate the different products and tanks that’s running through the system? Don’t forget the important systems like leak and theft detection.
Yes, they could have dedicated fiber optic running along the RoW, but almost none are handled that way. I know of a few that are, but these are definitely outliers.
Carriers today handle multiple products in the same line, with much less transmix than ever before. Running manual is a very risky proposition, too many high likelihood, high consequence scenarios too allow for anything real duration.