Where does all the money go? Not to cyber apparently.
Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran
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#42People use 1000x more water than they need to drink.
If a water supply chain attack happened, we would just distribute bottled water for drinking, and people would go without washing for a few days whilst the issue was sorted.
Bottled water production is already big enough that delivering a bottle a day per person in new York is within the scale of the current production and retail networks scope.
It wouldn't cause the mass casualties an enemy might assume.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did they literally just leave the water supply plant management software out available on the open internet? Hard to even call this a hack!
I mean Some of these municipal water plants in the US are independently operated by municipalities of awfully few people and even fewer resources to spare, often serving relatively vast areas… It’s probably not how you or I would set things up—especially after many years of warnings and slick best practices guides-but I can sympathize with “if it’s not broken…”-style maintenance, especially at the local level. These…
Who connected the systems to the Internet in the first place?
Why?
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#44Is this the true reason for the cyclosporasis outbreaks?
Taco Bell is secretly funded by Iran and North Korea and invented covid…
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> There’s always an other. That’s what the [group I definitely don't belong to] have been doing for decades.
Please reconsider your logic. And:
> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
Re: Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran
#46People use 1000x more water than they need to drink. If a water supply chain attack happened, we would just distribute bottled water for drinking, and people would go without washing for a few days whilst the issue was sorted. Bottled water production is already big enough that delivering a bottle a day per person in new York is within the scale of the current production and retail networks scope. It wouldn't cause t…
Exactly how big do you think those bottles would be?
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#48People use 1000x more water than they need to drink. If a water supply chain attack happened, we would just distribute bottled water for drinking, and people would go without washing for a few days whilst the issue was sorted. Bottled water production is already big enough that delivering a bottle a day per person in new York is within the scale of the current production and retail networks scope. It wouldn't cause t…
Iran doesn't need to cause mass casualties. They just need to make US citizens hate the war in Iran.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
The rest of the thread demonstrates well enough that flagging would have been a better response than trying to engage with it factually.
But I do appreciate the attempt anyway.
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#50Where does all the money go? Not to cyber apparently.
DOGE eliminated 1/3 of CISA staff in 2025. Trump reduced the 2026 CISA budget by $491 million (17%). Trump intends to slash their budget by an additional $707 million in 2027.
The ICE budget was just increased by $70 BILLION, bringing its total to >$200 billion.