(07-10-2020, 05:45 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(07-10-2020, 03:27 AM)p_rushing Wrote: There were a few stories about hacking and a plant blowing up a week or 2 ago. It sounded like Israel may have done it, but it didn't get a lot of coverage. If it was fake, I would expect Iran to openly blame Israel. They are trying to say it was sabotage from within. The fact that they haven't blamed them, points to Israel having used some type of cyber attack to cause it to blow up.

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.

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