Posted on 07/02/2014 8:08:07 AM PDT by rktman
Making the electricity grid greener is boosting its vulnerability to computer hacking, increasing the risk that spies or criminals can cause blackouts.
Adding wind farms, solar panels and smart meters to the power distribution system opens additional portals through which hackers can attack the grid, according to computer security experts advising governments and utilities. Where traditionally the grid took power from a few sources, it’s now absorbing it from thousands.
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If it weren’t for bad ideas,this bunch would have very few ideas at all.
Couple the hacking vulnerabilities with the fact that IWTs and solar by their very nature increase vulnerability due to their random and unpredictable supply and you got a real problem. Time to go totally off grid....
If the grid does down, you can’t used power...now THAT’S conservation!
After all , that’s the green weenies real goal-cut consumption by greedy western imperialist pig dogs.
Obama and the filthy democrats want a crisis... let’s hope this isn’t the one they pick....
50 years from now the internet may play a smaller roll in our lives than the techies are presuming.
Take e-magazine sales, for example - they are going down. People have begun to realize that it’s better to just have a printed magazine.
Russia just bought a bunch of typewriters, as another example, and now they place their most top secret information on paper instead of a computer.
Computers/internet is/are awesome, but mightily flawed when it comes to security.
The smart meters are a great example of how a neat idea can also be a very, very stupid idea.
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