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Water treatment plant hacked, chemical mix changed for tap supplies

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Re: no prizes for good guess

Well-designed, critical systems usually have hard limits built into them so that such a thing can't happen - not without someone going out there manually (with appropriate tools) and taking the situation in hand, anyway. For fluorine/chlorine and such, I would generally expect such a system to either just reject a "dump everything" command, or to merely increase things to a higher but still relatively safe level - whatever the hard limit restricts it to.

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