Because it’s way, way cheaper to pay one guy to sit in a room monitoring 50 pump stations remotely, than it is to pay 50 guys to sit in random pump stations 24/7 when they don’t need human intervention for months on end.

Why aren’t the networks properly air-gapped and protected? Read the first five words again.

Wastewater treatment is a rather complex process these days, with sensors all along the process line reporting data back to the main office. At a minimum it requires a local area network.

Porn?

…definitely porn.

That’s true, but the reasons they did it are not their fault.

There’s a name for the thing that demands minimal spending on public services and national spending on private business, even at the expense of human life…