Posted on 09/11/2003 6:49:11 PM PDT by John W
NEW YORK, Sept. 11 Since last months widespread blackout, utilities have accelerated plans to automate the electric grid, replacing aging monitoring systems with digital switches and other high-tech gear. But those very improvements are making the electricity supply vulnerable to a different kind of peril: computer viruses and hackers who could black out substations, cities or entire states.
Researches working for the U.S., Canadian and British governments have already found back doors ways into the digital relays and control room technology that increasingly direct electricity flow in North America.
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