25 Jul
2025
25 Jul
'25
5:54 p.m.
On 7/25/25 15:28, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Well, this was during the "cold" war. This prank moved the
meter toward the hot side a bit. But, the Russians couldn't
really complain, they KNEW they were taking a risk to try to
circumvent trade restrictions.
Get hold of the book Spycraft" by Robert Wallace and H.
Keith Melton, there are a bunch of similar stories described
there.
Jon
Also, way
back, there was a case where a SCADA
manufacturer thought some of their gear was being bought
for the trans-Siberia pipeline, and couldn't be sold for
that under trade restrictions. Somebody at that company
got in touch with a contact at the CIA, and asked if they
wanted to insert a "feature" into those units. They put
in a time bomb that was essentially the same as the Y2K
shutdown, and blew up the entire pipeline when all the
valves slammed shut at the same time. This info was
reported by the famous Jack Anderson in the Washington Post.
That's not just a nasty prank, that is an act of war.