[FairOpinion]

"I wonder if they assumed a terrorist attack and invoked a total shutdown. That would explain the grid failure. "

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You may have a point.

Outage Triggers Emergency Plans

Excerpt:

NEW YORK -- For the New York Police Department, Thursday's blackout almost instantly triggered a set of security precautions put in place after the World Trade Center attack.

Heavily armed teams of special counterterror officers moved into place at city landmarks and other sensitive locations, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said. Officials swiftly realized the power outage was not an act of terror and then used teams to make sure no one took advantage of the blackout to strike at a terror target, Kelly said.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

Along the same lines, I found an astonishing amount of information regarding cyberterrorism; and more specifically, the nations' power grids.

It was interesting, thought I'd share it.

There are two fundamental ways for terrorists to disrupt a power grid: a physical attack or an internet based cyber attack.

"The event I fear most is a physical attack in conjunction with a successful cyber-attack on the responders' 911 system or on the power grid," Ronald Dick, director of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center

Power grid control systems, meanwhile, are vulnerable to computer hackers.

A National Security Agency mock attack on systems that control the power grid in the late 1990s found that a cyber attack could bring down the grid.

Could cyberterrorists really take control of a dam or a power plant