Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money

On 1/12/2025 10:56 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

Do you have any insights into the 1982 Trans-Siberian gas pipeline
explosion, which was alledgedly caused by CIA-modified Western
software?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Abyss

 Rumors are that it was PLC code, and that the Russians pirated PLC software
updates to go with their hardware since they didn't have vendor support
contracts... and they pirated from the wrong place.  Namely from a CIA
agent.  Is this true?  I don't know but it's what our security guys say and
they love to use it as an example of supply chain insecurity.
--scott

The wikipedia article gives some reasons to doubt the story, such as a
claim that at the time, the USSR didn't have digital controls on the
pipelines.
We do know that *something* sure as hell made an explosion visible from
orbit.
pt