11-11-2009, 02:55 PM | #1 | |
Demiurge
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Surviving for months w/o electricity
60min on Sunday had a piece on hackers and the electrical grid. It is very likely that hackers, likely in the service of foreign hostile governments, have some control over our electrical grid. With not only the ability to take it down, but to remotely destroy our electrical infrastructure by commanding generators to self-destruct.
In the piece, they reported that Obama had said hackers had already done this in a foreign country. 60min reported that that country was Brazil in 2007. So now Brazil comes out and says that it wasn't hackers, but faulty equipment. And what happens a day later? An even larger outage occurs, which takes down the power in all of Paraguay and much of Brazil. Again, a weak explanation from Brazil over transmission lines. This is a user comment from Slashdot: Quote:
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