Water Pump Destruction Not Due To SCADA Hack 90
knifeyspooney writes "According to the Springfield State Journal-Register, the city's recent public water system failure was not caused by malicious activity. One water district trustee spoke this gem: 'First, they tell us that it's the first instance of cyber hacking in the entire world, and everyone goes nuts. Now, all of a sudden, they tell us it's not.'"
This is the FBI (Score:5, Funny)
Good morning Mr. Mayor,
this is special agent Smith.
Yes, we'd like you to say the water pump malfunctioned and wasn't hacked.
No, no, I know about the truth, Mr. Mayor, but we don't want the public to be aware of the dangers they are in from exploding water towers and militarised telephone cables... or to encourage copycat hackers.
Yes, yes... just say it was normal wear and tear.
Oh, you're not going to comply?.. are you aware that we have an unauthorised GPS under your car and know what you do Tuesday nights? ... ahh I'm glad you see things our way.
Re:Manipulating the stupid masses through media. (Score:4, Funny)
Isn't all that tinfoil a little scratchy?
Re:First instance? (Score:4, Funny)
Yes.
There have been hacking instances somewhere in the world, in the past, probably. But this is the first one that's cyber.
Re:First instance? (Score:5, Funny)
They trendsourced it.
As MrEricSir once wrote: (http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1174265&cid=27321897)
Def. trendsource
-verb: to solve problems using popular buzzwords
("The water utility trendsourced the cyberhack by integrating crowdsourcing with Agile methodologies automated with a SOAP communication layer.")