Hacker increased chemical level at Oldsmar's city water system, sheriff says
From the article: "Thanks to a vigilant operator and several redundancies, the heightened level of sodium hydroxide never caused a public threat."<p>I have a problem with the language here.  This was absolutely a public threat.  The attacker demonstrated intent and capability to inflict public harm.  That's the definition of a threat.<p>But the language downplaying the severity will mean this all blows over in a couple of months, without the actual mobilization/funds to properly secure not just this one site, but any similarly affected plants.<p>I've come to the conclusion that humans in general aren't very good at preventing catastrophic events we haven't seen before (see climate change).  We'll need to see n=1 disasters with this first, before there's public outcry to fix it.