(07-10-2020, 07:10 AM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(07-10-2020, 05:45 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: I'm not attacking your post or anything; I just have an honest question: how can a cyber attack cause something to blow up?  I'm not saying it can't; I'm just having a hard time coming up with a scenario where a cyber attack can cause an explosion.

That would depend on the equipment being hacked. Stuxnet caused the centrifuges to self destruct by instructing them to spin faster than designed while simultaneously indicating that all was well. 
If the targeted equipment was used to regulate high pressures, temperatures, fuel rates, etc., it could be hacked to alter any of those quantities to beyond critical (explosive) parameters.

(07-10-2020, 07:22 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(07-10-2020, 07:15 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: Psssh. Just tap the gauges!

I could just see Marty watching the SpaceX launch last month scratching his chin where all the knobs went in the cockpit and how those pesky 3 flat screens in front of the astronauts were launching this rocket.

He then proceeded to put his Beatles 8-track into his car and jam out.