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Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran

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Re: Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

He knows he brought these attacks with his war, but he doesn’t take the blame for anything.

> he brought these attacks with his war I'm no Trump supporter and this war was a big mistake, but justifying a nation poisoning another's civilian water supply is a bit upside down.

Yeah, what could we possibly have done[0] to justify an attack on our water supply?

[0]: https://www.commondreams.org/news/iran-water-desalination-pl...

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If I was in a power position, I could theoretically channel this water into my own private reservoirs and locations like private land, bunkers, etc to weather a disruption, and blame Iran and it would be really hard to validate. I mean if I was in a power position I would have also disrupted those in positions who would be validating me, made journalism much harder and have algorithms with LLM-enhanced astroturf acco…

I understand being mad, I also get mad. This is a bit unhinged.

We used to say that about some things before Snowden. And then there was Snowden.

Re: Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He knows he brought these attacks with his war, but he doesn’t take the blame for anything.

> he brought these attacks with his war I'm no Trump supporter and this war was a big mistake, but justifying a nation poisoning another's civilian water supply is a bit upside down.

Ask the people of Flint, Michigan?

Re: Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He knows he brought these attacks with his war, but he doesn’t take the blame for anything.

> he brought these attacks with his war I'm no Trump supporter and this war was a big mistake, but justifying a nation poisoning another's civilian water supply is a bit upside down.

We don't follow "rules" in war anymore, according to "Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth. We show no quarter and take no prisoners, we pursue "maximum lethality, not tepid legality."

That's American policy now. The gloves are off, no holds barred, everything and everyone is on the table. So I guess we reap what we sow.

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The Trump plan in Iran is not working. Gotta make them look like the evil bogeyman to get people to support further action.

Iran is beside the point. There is always a convenient bogeyman: China, Russia, North Korea… They sow discord between peoples to cover-up the ineptitude of domestic institutional assholes.

Blacks.

Homosexuals.

Communists.

Islamics.

Hispanics.

Liberals.

Intellectuals.

There’s always an other. That’s what the Republicans have been doing for decades.

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The Trump plan in Iran is not working. Gotta make them look like the evil bogeyman to get people to support further action.

This conspiracy theory would make more sense if he wasn’t working so hard to divert blame away from Iran: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/31/trump-minnesota-wat... > “I blame it on Minnesota because they are grossly incompetent,” Trump said at a cabinet meeting at Camp David on Friday, adding that Walz is “corrupt” and “Iran has bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota.” Asked later if he could rule out Ir…

As if it were only Minnesota. But his base doesn’t pay attention to details.

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are issuing this Public Service Announcement (PSA) to warn critical infrastructure asset owners and operators that malicious cyber actors (MCAs) are conducting cyber attacks targeting Operational Technology (OT) devices, including Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), specifically MicroLogix 1100 and…

Did they literally just leave the water supply plant management software out available on the open internet? Hard to even call this a hack!

Does anyone recall the Colonial Pipeline outage? They had their IT and OT networks segregated but without billing capacity nothing else mattered. You didn’t expect them to let the petrol flow for free, didja? All that it takes is for a “jump box” that spans or bridges supposedly segregated networks to be p0wned to permit compromise of the soft and chewy center.

Re: Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand being mad, I also get mad. This is a bit unhinged.

We used to say that about some things before Snowden. And then there was Snowden.

But they wouldn't need to false-flag an excuse to capture and privatize resources, they could and would just do that openly. The government can just take whatever it wants through eminent domain.

Re: Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran

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post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> he brought these attacks with his war I'm no Trump supporter and this war was a big mistake, but justifying a nation poisoning another's civilian water supply is a bit upside down.

We don't follow "rules" in war anymore, according to "Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth. We show no quarter and take no prisoners, we pursue "maximum lethality, not tepid legality." That's American policy now. The gloves are off, no holds barred, everything and everyone is on the table. So I guess we reap what we sow.

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