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."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.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.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.