[SCADASEC] Water Supply Poisoning Threat

[Kevin McGrath]

> It strikes me that most terrorists aren't very well
>> educated/smart people.

Thank God for that and Bruce Schneier agrees with you about this:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/06/portrait_of_the_1.html

Regards,
Kevin

Adriel Desautels wrote:
> Right, That is why I found the "terrorist" with "one pound of
> cyanide" to be so funny. It strikes me that most terrorists aren't
> very well educated/smart people.
> 
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> ab3a at comcast.net wrote:
>> In general, you're entirely correct, though it depends upon many
>> things.  Among them: the size of the water treatment plant, the
>> volume of raw water that you're introducing the sample in, the
>> detention time of the clear-well water, the coagulant one was
>> using, and so forth.
>> 
>> I tell people that if you're interested in poisoning a large water
>> treatment plant, you'd better bring your poison in barrels, because
>> it will take at least that much to be effective.  Our treatment
>> plants put out 150 Million gallons per day on a TYPICAL day and we
>> have been known to go over the 200 Million gallon per day mark in
>> unusual circumstances.
>> 
>> Go ahead, do the math.
>> 
>> Jake Brodsky
>> 
>> 



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