Add this to an administration that has long touted the need for a new costly GE "smart grid" (and is weak on national security), and wants a reason to pass Cap and Trade by July 4...
August 2003......or did you really think that it was a lightening strike?
geez too bad we didnt have a spare $1.4 trillion laying around to upgrade our electric grid or something..
1. Destroy the country.
2. Blame Bush.
Spies? We have endless illegals, muslims and God knows what running around the USA. Unless the whole country goes Arizona and RINO scum like McCain get kicked outr then we are screwed.
Morons who watch TV have no idea how bad things are. Keep watching TV and paying $50 to 120 a month to the cable companies to be (pea)-brainwashed.
I am hearing that the military GPS failure 2 weeks ago was NOT due to a software upgrade but rather due to HACKING.
I think it’s possible that the “upgrade” talk was just a cover story.
Who thinks China won’t attack us this way?
“The vulnerability may be bigger than we think,” the official said, adding that the level of sophistication necessary to pull off such intrusions is so high that it is “almost without a doubt” done by state sponsors”
IOW, some 16 year old kid from the Phillipines could have done it, or the malware, which was easy to erase and detect, was not by incompetent utilities.
Translation: Don’t regulate us for our incompetence! It was spies, spies dammit! Special powers of a foreign state we could not have forseen! We hired a “former government official” to say it, that means it must be true!
I think I detect the subtle technological brilliance of the Amish at work here . . .
I had a difficult time swallowing that story of the tree branch in rural Ohio that caused theblack-out the whole NE US and parts of Canada a few years ago.
That was one mighty Oak or Elm.
//1,000 point “flash crash” in the stock market//
That one got my attention in the same way. We know the Chinese and the Norks have been working on hacking into our systems for a good while
Even a coordinated simultaneous attack on sub stations and transmission towers in various parts of the country especially during peak demand would likely bring down large parts of our electrical grid. With many of these facilities being unguarded or in rural areas such attacks could be easily done with crippling effects on our economy.
I brought this to the attention of several responsible individuals in the organizations.
And was promptly ignored
I got the hell out. And focused on getting off the grid before the grid gets off me.
power grid bump
China has trained for YEARS in asymetrical warfare; it is the cornerstone of any conflict with the US. Every major training manual identifies America as “the main enemy”.
Anyone who thinks we are not in a cold war, right now, with China is not paying attention. Bill Clinton’s real legacy? our next world war.