Posted on 01/19/2008 8:29:48 AM PST by STARWISE
My favorite Willis line in the movie is, "Is there some sort of number you call like a 1-800 number? 1-800-henchmen?" He kept killing them and more kept showing up. lol
Ping.
Fyi..
No, I think it really means that power grids are just a bad idea, assuming that the CIA knows what the hell it’s talking about.
Things that make you go “Hmmmm....”
No power means no pumps.
No pumps means no gasoline, and no water.
A few gas stations may have generators, but lines will form there and gas supplies won’t last long.
Without water, you have 72 hours, give or take, to find more before dehydration puts you down.
Standard Clorox, 5.5 percent Sodium Hypochlorite, no perfumes or fresheners, will kill most water borne pathogens, 8 drops per gallon for clear water, 16 drops per gallon of cloudy water.
Even if you don’t believe hackers can turn out the lights, the US electrical grid IS vulnerable, as past outages have proven.
Having a Plan B that covers basic survival is mandatory.
What next?
Do that on Election Day in the big cities, hackers. The voters will thank you.
Since they won’t tell you which country had the episode...it makes you wonder if this was a 3rd world country...like Albania or Burma...or if it was a country like Norway or Italy. I’m betting it wasn’t a European country...and the electrical company probably didn’t even have a firewall set up on their network. This lack of a firewall would be a major embarrassment and not something you’d want to admit.
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