Hackers and the Electrical Grid.

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Somebody mentioned this in the Terminator thread. It belongs here, too.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/hostile_hackers_threaten_power_grid

Brief: Foreigners are going to crash the electrical grid through malware.

Solution proposed by the government: Give the president control of the electrical grid. In case of attack, he can shut it down.

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Everybody understands the inherent danger of entrusting the electrical grid to a politician, right?
 
[quote name='fatherofcaitlyn']Somebody mentioned this in the Terminator thread. It belongs here, too.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/hostile_hackers_threaten_power_grid

Brief: Foreigners are going to crash the electrical grid through malware.

Solution proposed by the government: Give the president control of the electrical grid. In case of attack, he can shut it down.

...

Everybody understands the inherent danger of entrusting the electrical grid to a politician, right?[/QUOTE]

The government solution to everything is more of itself, and more power concentrated in the hands of fewer people. That's been true throughout the history of our republic and it's accelerated in the last few years in "response" to the 9/11 attacks and now the current economic difficulty. The answer is always more centralized government control. It never works to solve the problem, but we keep trying it. I'm sure we'll try this too, just as we tried the Patriot Act, just as we tried creating a Department of Homeland Security, just as we tried TARP, just as we tried taking over GM and Chrysler, etc etc etc.
 
[quote name='elprincipe']The government solution to everything is more of itself, and more power concentrated in the hands of fewer people. That's been true throughout the history of our republic and it's accelerated in the last few years in "response" to the 9/11 attacks and now the current economic difficulty. The answer is always more centralized government control. It never works to solve the problem, but we keep trying it. I'm sure we'll try this too, just as we tried the Patriot Act, just as we tried creating a Department of Homeland Security, just as we tried TARP, just as we tried taking over GM and Chrysler, etc etc etc.[/quote]

But it'll work this time ...:lol:
 
I don't get this.. if it's going down anyways, why do we want to just give it to a person to make that decision....

As if a planned shutdown at will in any second is better than an accidental shutdown?

My ice cream is still going to melt either way....
 
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[quote name='xycury']I don't get this.. if it's going down anyways, why do we want to just give it to a person to make that decision....

As if a planned shutdown at will in any second is better than an accidental shutdown?

My ice cream is still going to melt either way....[/QUOTE]

I think it's more that they could get control of the grid and not shut it down, but overload it etc. Bad news with nuclear power plants etc.

Having a safety shut down would let them cut off any access if there was a hacker intrusion before they got control of something like that is my guess at the logic here.
 
Ram's slow loading picture makes me sad.

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I don't know if nuclear control rooms have access to the Internet or run OSes susceptible to spyware, but any power plant without any consumers would simply dump load and start shutting down. I don't think there is an immediate chance of overload or explosion.
 
[quote name='fatherofcaitlyn']Somebody mentioned this in the Terminator thread. It belongs here, too.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/hostile_hackers_threaten_power_grid

Brief: Foreigners are going to crash the electrical grid through malware.

Solution proposed by the government: Give the president control of the electrical grid. In case of attack, he can shut it down.

...

Everybody understands the inherent danger of entrusting the electrical grid to a politician, right?[/quote]


Somebody huh? ;)

Anyways what's so controversial about this?

The electrical system has been like this for years. Anyone can hack it if they know how. Heck I still don't believe that the black out from a few years ago was do to an overload.

Has this problem been addressed? NOPE.

I am worried about some ass clown with a rocket detonating an EMP device rather than shutting down the power grid.
 
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