Why are our water and power utilities connected to the internet? Is it so that the employees controlling them can work from home? If so they are accepting too much risk relative to the benefit.

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bluedino an hour ago | parent [-]

It makes sense to have them connected for a lot of reasons.

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symfrog an hour ago | parent [-]

which reasons?

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fishfasell an hour ago | parent [-]

Remote monitoring is one of them presumably

	▲	doubled112 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		But is it completely impossible to separate the monitoring and equipment/management? Stupid example like the equipment itself is not networked, but you could watch via a webcam and/or get metrics via image recognition. Maybe it's safer just to have somebody work the night shift.