Hmmm, why Florida? It's almost as if the deep state and China are quietly trying to take someone out down there that's been a thorn in their side.
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It's kind of unavoidable. SCADA is a monitoring system for water, waste, oil, and other chemicals and how they're mixed/handled in transportation. Typically there will be a network team looking out for alarms or signs of anything going wrong in transportation, but it has to be connected to a network to even relay that kind of information. That's also how they were able to catch this incident and stop it immediately. I guess it's a double edged sword. I also believe this could be related to the SolarWinds hack a couple weeks ago because a lot of businesses use that for SNMP monitoring among other things.
Want more jobs? Cut off the network connection and have people oversee the system at the station in real-time with a LAN network, isolated from the internet. Don't we still have phones? The network connection to the internet is the most dangerous thing to do unless they have the best crypto security system in place. That, too, is a liability risk. IMO. Something like this must be taken with extreme caution.
They'll still get in using a NEST thermostat
Then replace it.
Being able to work remotely prevents workers from dying due to incidents like Chernobyl.