Hackerspaid $5M
The Colonial Pipeline crisis is, of course, a reminder of the vulnerability of our aging physical infrastructures to cyberattacks, some of them by such governmental enemies as Putin’s Russia, others by criminal gangs working with the knowledge and cooperation of such dictatorships, be they Russia, China, North Korea or Iran (all of whom work in varying degrees to weaken the West.)
The Colonial mess, exacerbated by panic buying in some places, which has caused gas stations in some areas to go dry, reminds me of why I like living in cities, where you can walk to most services if you must. Fossil-fuel crises tend to be particularly painful in the suburbs and beyond, where frequent, even daily, driving is unavoidable.