3 ms·
It's only a matter of time before foreign hackers have the power to turn off the United State's electrical grid. Look how Russia did it in Ukraine.
by catacombs 8y ago
It's only a matter of time before foreign hackers have the power to turn off the United State's electrical grid. Look how Russia did it in Ukraine.
- olivermarks 8y agoDecentralizing the attack surfaces would go a long way to mitigating 'turning off the grid'. The US arguably has the advantage of their grids being lots of different grids patched together and run by 500+ companies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_U.S._power_transmission_grid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_U.S._power_transmi... Against that there are probably lots of backdoors and security lapses amongst all these daisy chained systems...
- tedivm 8y agoThat time has come and gone. We're essentially in a state where MAD principles apply. https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/03/21/northeastern-researchers-address-russian-power-grid-attack/ https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/03/21/northeastern-resear...