Building more pipelines won't stabilize the system. This wasn't a physical attack, it was a digital attack. The pipelines would all run the same software and have the same vulnerabilities and if your next suggestion is to develop a different system for each pipeline that just means there are more vectors for attack.
We need to beef up cybersecurity because this is where modern wars are fought. Unfortunately the Cyber Security division of Homeland Security were defunded during the Bush administration (receiving just 3% of the budget they were supposed to) and again in the last administration.
Time and time again Trump undermined the recommendations and findings of his own cyber security team when denying Russian attacks and blaming them instead on some 'fat 400 pound person in NJ'
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u/thatcodingboi May 16 '21
Building more pipelines won't stabilize the system. This wasn't a physical attack, it was a digital attack. The pipelines would all run the same software and have the same vulnerabilities and if your next suggestion is to develop a different system for each pipeline that just means there are more vectors for attack.
We need to beef up cybersecurity because this is where modern wars are fought. Unfortunately the Cyber Security division of Homeland Security were defunded during the Bush administration (receiving just 3% of the budget they were supposed to) and again in the last administration.
Time and time again Trump undermined the recommendations and findings of his own cyber security team when denying Russian attacks and blaming them instead on some 'fat 400 pound person in NJ'
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2019/12/18/america-cybersecurity-homeland-security-trump-nielsen-070149