https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3g4ex/why-remote-access-software-is-almost-too-useful

A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail.

It’s not every day that I get to tell a story about a type of technology that was recently in the news for macabre reasons, but then again, it’s not often that water supplies get hacked using screen sharing technology, which is something that literally happened in Oldsmar, Florida recently, when a panel that controls city’s the water treatment system was modified to increase the amount of sodium hydroxide.