Apparently we’ve had a number of critical infrastructure hacking attacks and attempts in the past couple of years. CNN reported on an apparent recent attack on an Illinois water system today. The nebulous “they” of the government supposedly said there’s “no credible threat” of hackers attacking our infrastructure, but wouldn’t “they” say that anyway? “They” love saying stuff like that!
Some woman interviewed on CNN about the Illinois water system hacker thingy said it would cost lots and lots of money to upgrade infrastructure against potential hackers and cyber attacks. I don’t know if that’s true, though. I have an idea that could make cyber attacks of this type a thing of the past, and it wouldn’t cost a thing: unplug the infrastructure from the internet and from all modems, and make people run the stuff manually on site. And even better might be to run all critical infrastructure systems mechanically, like in the days before computers. It used to work like that, (everything used to work like that before computers) and I’m sure it would still work now; and it would be un-cyber-attackable that way.
Look, I know it’s sporting and all to leave all of our critical military and infrastructure stuff on the internet for every foreign army and hacker to access: that’s just polite. But can’t we just have fake websites that look like it’s all plugged in, and have the actual stuff not plugged into the same internet everybody else uses? For all the zillions of dollars we spend on defense, I would have thought they could have their own internet. But maybe that’s unsportsmanlike or something.
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