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mech422 | on: Tracking Anthropic-discovered vulnerabilities
we've already had water treatment plants hacked and the amount of chlorine in the water changed. Florida ended up with dangerous amounts of lye being added to the water and was saved by an employee that noticed the change...I am worried, no airgaps to be found..

https://www.controleng.com/throwback-attack-hackers-attempt-...

https://esemag.com/water/russian-hackers-breached-quebec-wat...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-water-systems-cyberattacks-i...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55989843

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throw0101d | parent | next
> I am worried, no airgaps to be found..

Reminder that Stuxnet managed to jump an air gap (via USB keys):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

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lifeisloving | parent
Have you tasted Florida water, it could probably use some extra chlorine. They dont exactly invest that much in public health/infrastructure, im not surprised this happened in Florida. Its a careless state with careless politicians.

Im still not worried about it. There's thousands of water treatment facilities in the USA and you've surfaced two occasions.

Ya'll should try actually breaking into something semi secure with an LLM, its not as easy as you might think. Seriously go try it, if you think its so easy there's millions of dollars to pick up off the floor on bugcrowd or h1. Seriously, please go give it a go.

Secondly, maybe the USA should stop committing mass murder across the globe if we don't want to be the subject of retaliatory attacks.

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