This is one of those things where we should be saying... "WHY THE HELL DOES OUR WATER INFRASTRUCTURE NEED TO BE ON THE INTERNET"
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2026
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Wastewater treatment is a rather complex process these days, with sensors all along the process line reporting data back to the main office. At a minimum it requires a local area network.
Because it's way, way cheaper to pay one guy to sit in a room monitoring 50 pump stations remotely, than it is to pay 50 guys to sit in random pump stations 24/7 when they don't need human intervention for months on end.
Why aren't the networks properly air-gapped and protected? Read the first five words again.
Porn?
....definitely porn.
OnlyDams.
The people to blame are the morons that hooked up utilities controls to the internet...
That's true, but the reasons they did it are not their fault.
There's a name for the thing that demands minimal spending on public services and national spending on private business, even at the expense of human life...
Eh. No. I'd argue actual minimal spending should say that these services never learn what the internet is.