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More likely that the huge storm sweeping the south of england is the cause
by JBorrow 7y ago
More 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.