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I link a few old news with it : First there was a news that electric grids are hackable. And Russians might be after those. Then there was a news that White Hou
by z92 7y ago
I link a few old news with it : First there was a news that electric grids are hackable. And Russians might be after those. Then there was a news that White House called for some of the power transmission switches be turned manual, which are now automatic. Next there were a bunch of large and sudden power failures in large cities all over the world. And now this.
Maybe there isn't a link. Just a possibility.
- snambi 7y agooh come on. if power goes down, the it is Russians. probably old outdated powerlines are the reason.
- jazzyjackson 7y agoJust saying... if I was a hacker, I would hack in a way that made it look like old failing equipment
- JBorrow 7y agoMore likely that the huge storm sweeping the south of england is the cause
- londons_explore 7y agoImagine I were a hacker who had hacked into a big gas turbine power plant. To create maximum damage, I am going to want to time my attack within moments of another generator going down. The UK grid can tolerate one big failure, but not two at the same time. So I sit... I lie in wait... For maybe months... As soon as I see another big generator fail and cause a sudden change in frequency, then within a couple of seconds, I trigger my exploit to shut down my powerstation too. The storm might have caused one outage, and a hacker the other. Any decent hacker with this plan in mind will try to hide their tracks. They'll inject a 'glitchy' sensor reading to trigger the failure. They'll make sure all their malware auto-uninstalls itself within milliseconds of the incident, so any investigation sees a glitch in a sensor reading and can't track down the real cause.