Timothy Birdnow

I cannot fathom why on God's green Earth you would network a water treatment system.

We did just fine in the old days where you pumped water into a treatment plant and then pumped it out. Why put that on the internet?

I'm not an engineer and maybe there is a good reason to do that but I see little value in it. But this shows there is great vulnerability.

I find it interesting it happened in Minnesota too, the home of the resistance movement and host to all the Somali and other Islamists.

At any rate this happened in a number of communities in the area and from what many experts have said it looks to likely be an Iranian attack, to sow chaos in America.

That is a sign of desperation, that they are wasting valuable time and resources to shut down water plants temporarily.

This should be a cautionary tale for us about networking everything. If water systems can be hacked why not voting machines? Why not hospital services? How about getting violent criminals released from prison early? We put all our eggs in one basket and then are surprised when we drop the basket and they are all broken.

I have no idea of how automated the water system is, but can you imagine if they had finessed this a bit more, say, shut down the computer algorithm that chlorinated the water, or did other preservation techniques, so the public was drinking contaminated sewer water (plenty of that in the state capital).

Computer technology and AI have and are remaking the world. The worrisome thin is that we seem to be losing control of what they are remaking the world into.

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