As America’s Nukes and Sensors Get More Connected, the Risk of Cyber Attack Is Growing

Defense One ^ | January 17, 2018 | Patrick Tucker

[C19fan]

Building nuclear weapons and warning systems that can be relied upon is harder than it was during the Cold War, thanks to the growing number of digital connections between various parts of the nuclear enterprise. Those links are intended to improve everything from commanders’ response times to the accuracy of missile defenses, but they also provide more avenues of attack and make it harder to know your exact level of readiness, according to new reports from U.S. Air Force advisors and a London think tank.

[C19fan]

Why does Skynet and Battlestar Galactica come to mind.

[Buckeye McFrog]

So throw smart meters, connected to the web AND grid, on 100 million homes. What could happen?