25 Jul
2025
25 Jul
'25
1:13 p.m.
Oh is this public now? I remember this, it was hilarious. Imagine what
happens when all your valves go to "open" or "closed" at once.
I wonder if this led to the downfall of the Soviet Union. Just think
about how you would feel if you suddenly realized that all the
infrastructure based on chips and designs that you stole was now 100%
suspect and could blow up at any time.
VAX, PDP11, etc.... And remember when the Pentium "bug" came out? Wasn't
that just weird....
Ah fun stuff no doubt.
Also, way back, there was a case where a SCADA
manufacturer thought some
of their gear was being bought for the trans-Siberia pipeline, and
couldn't be sold for that under trade restrictions. Somebody at that
company got in touch with a contact at the CIA, and asked if they wanted
to insert a "feature" into those units. They put in a time bomb that was
essentially the same as the Y2K shutdown, and blew up the entire
pipeline when all the valves slammed shut at the same time. This info
was reported by the famous Jack Anderson in the Washington Post.
Jon