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xscott • today at 12:21 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Instead of poisoning the water supply, you'd stuxnet the pumps. I imagine the network interfaces for status and control are about as well protected as grocery store freezers.

A bad pathogen could go world wide, but you could trash multiple cities with online attacks. No electricity, no water, no communications. Things would get bad.