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> causing trains to be halted and failures with traffic signalling. It came as people in parts of Argentina were preparing to go to the polls for local election
by canada_dry 7y ago
> causing trains to be halted and failures with traffic signalling. It came as people in parts of Argentina were preparing to go to the polls for local elections.
According to this: https://www.as-coa.org/articles/argentinas-2019-electoral-calendar https://www.as-coa.org/articles/argentinas-2019-electoral-ca...
... there are only a couple Gubernatorial elections, so likely unrelated.
With all the talk of the USA ramping up efforts to disrupt Russia's power grid, could it be that some out-in-the-wild exploit hit an unintended target? I couldn't find any info on who provided Argentina with their equipment.
- H8crilA 7y agoElectrical power issues are very common in Buenos Aires (blackouts in blocks of the city, as well as very poor quality of the delivered power, resulting in damages to power supply units). I'd rather bet on the general dysfunction of the state rather than a concerted external effort.
- Nerdfest 7y agoIt thought the opposite was in progress now, with external actors doing deep scans on electrical infrastructure in the US. Regardless of direction, if I were to start a conspiracy theory, I'd point out that testing in a country that already has poor infrastructure would be great cover. Seriously though, I'd think it would be trivial to figure out if this was failure or malice.
- gmuslera 7y agoThis seem to be a good example of Hanlon's Razor. Uruguay and Argentine energy systems are interconnected because we sell each other energy when there is too much demand, and how that connection was made caused the outage to spread to Uruguay.