Cyberattack on US Oil Pipeline Infrastructure

Bacle

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Still doesn't mean an Intranet can't be set up that runs along the pipeline. I won't be hard at all to have Fiber Optic Cable for such an internet to be laid along the pipeline. That way everything can be off the internet.
Like what the military does
The military isn't a for-profit enterprise.

The pipeline company is.

So they cut corners on IT security, and now the whole easy coast is paying for it.
 

Sailor.X

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The military isn't a for-profit enterprise.

The pipeline company is.

So they cut corners on IT security, and now the whole easy coast is paying for it.
And this is why certain regulations on important infrastructure companies is necessary. My private business is all well and good if you are a small corner store. It is not when anything you do or don't do can screw over millions of Americans.
 

Zachowon

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You guys do know most companies pay more then fight it right?
Unless it is a major tech company or the government, they pay
 

Zachowon

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Yes, that's why they keep doing it.

They make millions.

But here we were lead to believe they didn't pay. Then we were lead to believe it's $5mil that they paid. Now they're saying $90 mil. That's insane.
But most of the time this happens all the damn time.
I get being lied to.
Just explaining
 

Morphic Tide

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I wouldn't go so far as to say it's the Hegelian Dialectic in action, as getting people on the payroll to specifically collapse the society they live in is notoriously difficult and the intersection of True Believers and the technical staff involved in these matters is almost nonexistent and the gap between the open planning for the COVID responses and this is vastly larger, but them having a whole ream of matters they've prepared to take advantage of would not be surprising in the slightest.

Basically, rather than deliberately getting these things started, they work out what the consequences of such eventualities are as best possible, and then set to work preparing to make use of them. This works out a lot better as an explanation of what's happened, as it covers how the lockdown results are so spotty, and the rapid one-eighty March 2020 from COVID being not much an issue to being The Biggest Problem, because the on-the-ground reporters didn't have pre-emptive on-high directives.
 

Sailor.X

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I'm kind of glad that I bought a Civic a couple years back now. Went to visit the parents this weekend and got 43 MPG on this trip. Beats the hell out of that old Chevy pickup I used to drive.
Indeed. I glad I purchased my Sonata Hybrid back in 2016. I get about the same MPG as you do. A lot better than my old Impala that got 20 MPG.
 

Terthna

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I'm kind of glad that I bought a Civic a couple years back now. Went to visit the parents this weekend and got 43 MPG on this trip. Beats the hell out of that old Chevy pickup I used to drive.
My mother finally replaced her old car of twelve years with a new hybrid SUV, which should make up somewhat for the increasing gas prices.
 

Cherico

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yeah I belive that.

For decades now corperate america has essentally refused to train incoming personal. Instead prefering to either pouch already trained people or bring in cheaper emigrants. After 20 years of that they don't have the people any more. The solution is to fucking train people but that costs money and they would have to be less abusive to retain personal.
 

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