25 Jul
2025
25 Jul
'25
1:25 p.m.
On Jul 25, 2025, at 1:13 PM, cz via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
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....
It reminds me a bit of the opening scene of Red Storm Rising -- Tom Clancy's second
novel though actually a not well credited collaboration with Larry Bond, and in some ways
more reminiscent of Bond's work than Clancy's. Great stuff, in any case.
paul
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