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marktwain:" It is, at minimum, studying how to take out our electric grid and communications network.
It may have the capability to do that.
We have been negligent in developing robust protections for them."

The negligence in mandating protections of electronic, communications,
and electrical systems has been both corporate and governmental issues.
This is due primarily to concerns about who should bear the expense of such protections: business or government.
Have we already forgotten the 2013 incident in California whereby transformers were shot by a gunman,
and this incident led to almost cascading collapse of the electrical system in the Silicon Valley.
Some call it vandalism, some call it terrorism, but regardless, it demonstrates the level of our vulnerability.

See: "Attack on electric grid raises alarm (LA Times ^ | February 6, 2014 )"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3120382/posts

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Not to worry, that substation now has a cinder block wall all the way around it, and lots of cameras.

Just like all the substations in America...<sarcasm>