[scintill76]

> Assante and his fellow INL researchers had bought the generator for $300,000 from an oil field in Alaska. They’d shipped it thousands of miles to the Idaho test site

> Assante, despite the months of effort and millions of dollars in federal funds he’d spent developing the attack they were witnessing

Yeah, it is kind of sad it took that much money just to “prove” that digitally twisting a safety-related knob the opposite way an engineer would tell you, is going to ruin things. Hope it raised the right attention to try to secure things, but, a decade later SCADA attacks are still a concern...