> On Jul 25, 2025, at 1:13 PM, cz via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Oh is this public now? I remember this, it was hilarious. Imagine what
> happens when all your valves go to "open" or "closed" at once....
It reminds me a bit of the opening scene of Red Storm Rising -- Tom Clancy's
second novel though actually a not well credited collaboration with Larry Bond,
and in some ways more reminiscent of Bond's work than Clancy's. Great stuff,
in any case.
paul
>> Also, way back, there was a case where a SCADA manufacturer thought some of
>> their gear was being bought for the trans-Siberia pipeline, and couldn't be
>> sold for that under trade restrictions. Somebody at that company got in
>> touch with a contact at the CIA, and asked if they wanted to insert a
>> "feature" into those units. They put in a time bomb that was essentially the
>> same as the Y2K shutdown, and blew up the entire pipeline when all the
>> valves slammed shut at the same time. This info was reported by the famous
>> Jack Anderson in the Washington Post.
>> Jon
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