But but but, it was just so much cheaper to build it in China though.
Just think of the Overhead!
some very smart FReepre wrote a long post on how that’s not NEARLY as easy as it is to the professional worriers here :)
There’s always the assumption that our military isn’t the brightest and would Never consider something like this happening nor prepare for it.
China is a real concern.
Being fatalist like I see around here is also
Sandia is not a Honeywell operation. It is a federally funded research and development center. It is owned by the Federal Government. It is operated for the government under what is called a Management and Operating Contract held by Honeywell, but that is a vehicle for paying employees on other then government civil service wages. It is an arrangement dating back to the Manhattan Project.
This is important because Sandia does some of the most sensitive work that the government does and as an advanced engineering science laboratory is probably the premier place for any such investigations to be done.
“Transformers do not contain software-based control systems and are passive devices, though recent equipment may contain diagnostic electronics, the WSJ said...Cai told the newspaper that even if someone accessed the diagnostic data, it was of no import.”
Well, we’ll find out - it’s not hard to slip in a few circuits in a device that weighs over 200 tons. I suspect they plan to thoroughly examine the device, see what type of communications gear it has, figure out how to neutralize it, and then do the same for the rest of our power grid - virtually all supplied by China now (thank you again, American labor unions).
Beware of Decepticons.
“...A report in Politico said Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette had recently played down concerns from industry that new clean energy projects could be inconvenienced by the order.
The language in the order is said to be so all-encompassing and covering nearly 20 types of gear that developers fear they may have to delay projects, anticipating that components ordered from abroad could be banned....”
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Hmmmmm.. looks like the WSJ is doing a bit of subtle interference running for the Chicoms.
Thanks for posting. CHYna is azzhole.
They needed a paperweight for the affordable care act while no one was still not reading it?
Every vulnerable/potentially vulnerable device was identified and remediated where possible, removed and replaced where not. It was a huge project that took approximately 18 months to complete.
The US Government is very active in getting the financial services industry shored up against Chinese (and Russian, Iranian, etc..) state sponsored hacking. The backdoors that Chinese made compute components contain are well known, the effort to shore up and protect financial services is huge, I cannot imagine the urgency that must be felt in the power and other utility industries right now.
We have to kick China all the way out of our Country. Their state sponsored students (spies) and everything made in China has to go. They're doing their level best to take us down from within and we must not let them win.
There’s probably more than meets the eye.
Lots can be learned just by listening in on the current. See Sense.com.
That and install some hidden kill switches. Trust NOTHING from the Chinese. They lie.
I wouldn’t put it past the ChiComs to put circuits in those transformers that can crash the grid whenever it was convenient for China to do so.
Why on earth WOULDN’T a country like China build in some destructive short circuits and make them addressable via satellite?
Why
WOULDN’T
they?
Does anyone remember Broadband over Power Lines? BPL
It was supposed to be the easy way to deliver broadband nationwide.
What if the Chicoms are using the transformers as means of sending data through power lines?
Or maybe our gov’t sends data over power lines and Chicoms are trying to tap into it.
YES big transformers have embedded computers in them.
Cai told the newspaper that even if someone accessed the diagnostic data, it was of no import.Well gee, we should have saved all that trouble and just asked Cai.
BTW, is Cai a Chinese name?...just asking.
This is a national security issue.