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Someone tested such a thing on a pretty big generator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM8kLaJ2NDU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM8kLaJ2NDU https://www.wire
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3y ago
Someone tested such a thing on a pretty big generator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM8kLaJ2NDU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM8kLaJ2NDU
https://www.wired.com/story/how-30-lines-of-code-blew-up-27-ton-generator/ https://www.wired.com/story/how-30-lines-of-code-blew-up-27-...
> Black chunks began to fly out of an access panel on the generator, which the researchers had left open to watch its internals. Inside, the black rubber grommet that linked the two halves of the generator’s shaft was tearing itself apart.
This was a proof-of-concept for a cyber attack on power infrastructure.
They sent it malware that inverted the grid sync behavior from "Sync up, then connect, and if you de-sync, disconnect" to "If you are synced, disconnect, if you are desynced, reconnect"
The Wired article is an advert for a book filled with pretty fluffy prose - At times reading like a romance novel...