I'm not a pipeline expert, but I've been doing computers sense the early 90s. You have a pipe. It has pumps and valves. You have a computer that controls it all. The computer gets hacked. UNPLUG THE DAM COMPUTER... and plug in another one. Then restart the pumps. If they are too incompetent to figure out a workaround then get the hell out of the way and let someone else try.
If there is one thing I've learned with computers its that the guy at the console is god. There is no such thing as taking over from a remote location. Anyone that tells you differently has been watching too many movies. Send real actual human beings out the the pumps, unplug the dam computer and just turn the pump on manually. Yeah, a person might have to watch the pressure and flow rates etc rather than the computer. So the hell what. Get the dam gas flowing again morons.
You're asking the right questions. No back up plan, no off-site disaster recovery facility, no backups of data? What's really going on here. I've seen pizza shops with a better disaster recovery plan.
Exactly. They might as well be telling us the Death Star was remotely hijacked by a hacker and that's why it blew up Alderan. It makes no dam sense... until you realize they would love nothing more than to punish the southern states for daring to remove WuFlu restrictions, and for just being red states in general.