Chinese hackers infiltrated plane, train and water systems for five years, US says

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Chinese hackers infiltrated plane, train and water systems for five years, US says
theguardian.com

Chinese hackers infiltrated plane, train and water systems for five years, US says::A group known as Volt Typhoon, geared toward sabotage, quietly burrowed into the networks of critical US infrastructure

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Could we not tie critical infrastructure to the open web? I know it’s great to have these systems communicating with each other, but damn…hire some extra humans to throw the important switches and push the right buttons air gapped from the web so that some malicious actor can’t cause massive damage from halfway around the world via a few lines of code.

You mean create jobs - what kind of nutball idea is that? I won't stand for it - that's not how I want my our tax money to be spent! I will burn this place to the ground before I let that happen.

- Republicans, all across the entire nation

Let’s underfund critical security to stoke xenophobia to stri up more nationalism and feed the MIC even more money. Oh, and don’t forget to buy a personal arsenal for Doomsday!