On: Hacker increased chemical level at Oldsmar's city ...

[beervirus]

If my vague memories of high school chemistry serve me correctly, then 11,100 ppm is 0.2775M, which would have a pH of about 13.4. That's definitely not something I'd want to drink.

[gowld → beervirus]

11K ppm is 1% of the entire water supply. I doubt the plant had that much lye in stock.

[beervirus → gowld]

But they probably had enough lye in stock to start producing water at that concentration.

[extrapickles → beervirus]

I hope they followed industry standards, and used a pump that was simply not able to supply harmful amounts of the chemical even when running at maximum speed.

[beervirus → extrapickles]

Surely a water treatment plant that opens up controllers to the public Internet follows all industry standards!