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Great article pointing out how increasingly common this is: https://www.grid.news/story/technology/2022/12/06/the-north-carolina-power-grid-attack-exposes-a-tr
by jhonof 4y ago
Great article pointing out how increasingly common this is:
https://www.grid.news/story/technology/2022/12/06/the-north-carolina-power-grid-attack-exposes-a-troubling-reality/ https://www.grid.news/story/technology/2022/12/06/the-north-...
> There were 70 reports of emergency electric incidents and disturbances caused by suspected physical attacks, sabotage or vandalism from January to August 2022, Grid’s analysis of the most recently available data from the Department of Energy found. That figure represents a 75 percent increase from 40 such reports in all of 2015, the first year for which comparable data is available.
That being said, this isn't new, it just wasn't reported on as much as before.
- Sakos 4y agoI'm surprised there isn't some automated drone-based system to detect and track the shots fired during an incident like this. Are we seeing any tech-based solutions to this yet? We've known about the risk to infrastructure like this since forever.
- lamontcg 4y agoShotspotters are actually kind of crap it turns out, also requires shots to be fired. And we're not going to have drones operating 24/7 over every single substation in America, there are way, way too many of them. Tech based solutions probably look like cameras, alarms systems and better physical security.
- Sakos 4y agoWell, you don't need a drone to detect a shot, but once a shot is detected, they could be used to track the source and take pictures and/or follow the perpetrator to their car or even further.