alt Hacker NewsThere are 150 million taxpayers and the federal government regulates all of them. I don’t see why they can’t audit 0.1% of that. If there are 150,000 utilities then absent some regulation, some of them will fuck up. If we want fewer fuckups, you need regulation.
What’s the penalty you would impose on a rural water system that has under 10 employees that services thousands of people for water and/or wastewater?
What does that audit look like and how frequent does that happen? It’s a security assessment? A quality assessment? A risk assessment?
I’m open to the idea, but I will repeat, I don’t think the problem is well enough understood for a “make the feds do it” type of comment.