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I'm not sure about the US, but in Russia and, well, in all former Soviet states energy systems are not actually connected to the internet and where there is aut

I'm not sure about the US, but in Russia and, well, in all former Soviet states energy systems are not actually connected to the internet and where there is automation it can all fallback to manual operations, so they can survive cyber attacks like nothing happened (almost, as figuring things out and communications cost some time).

ghostpepper 7y ago
This didn't stop the 2015 attack Ukraine's power systems from wreaking havoc, although I suppose if it was entirely computerized they could have been offline for much longer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2015_Ukraine_power_grid_cyberattack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2015_Ukraine_power_gr...