re: Next up ... power grid taken out ...

Read "One Second After". A novel about US power grid being taken out.
Scary stuff

Enemies meaning internal govt operatives

It's a threat...

I doubt that the US Govt has the competence to stop such an attack.

The Energy Secretary is an absolute idiot.

Not one of these morons has ever been in the IEEE Cyber Security Committee meetings.

Including the vast number of idiots writing about the grid daily. If you don't know STHU .....

If the conditions are right for a cascade event ...Maybe, just maybe, a section of the country can go off line. The last time the east went down was due to tree branch and Generator Relays being set wrong. The only thing that saved the northeast were the hydro's. The Hydro's were used to restart the fossil fuel plants that went down.

Name one incursion into a distribution grid .....the only one I can recall was Calpine in California (Power Producer) There have been others but nothing as noteworthy as Calpine. Yet Calpine was central office intrusion, not one power plant affected. The reason for not centralizing the grid is simple. These are private entities considering themselves to be competitors. The reason they are called IOU's Investor Owned Utilities. They don't share inside information ....thus they use different communication languages and use separate products. Many Power Plants will have ABB and Beckwith Electric Generation Protection relays, separate manufacturers, used to back each other up. The combo can be Schweitzer (SEL) and Beckwith or ABB. Some have sold out to one brand one manufacturer. To break in you cannot give a simple command to shut down ...you have to know the language system of the program then the language of the relay and know exactly what has to be done to take one plant off line ....now duplicate that over and over to try and shut down an entire grid.

The idiocy of the simple minded boneheaded Politician spewing this crap is mind blowing.

The first Cyber security Committee meeting in IEEE included both producers and manufacturers ....the screaming that took place when the first engineer says "We should use one uniform connected system to protect the grid!

Manufacturers shot back "Good, one source to hack into and take the entire country down. Brilliant move."

He was over ruled....the idiot idea never got considered.

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Yeah but I’m afraid she’s almost too “right” but n this.

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Sounds almost like an invitation, don't it tho?

What she is really saying is that they are capable of shutting down areas that disagree with them.

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There have been very smart people warning the government about hardening and securing the power grid for 15-20 years and very little has been done to do that.

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Of course nothing has been done. The same people responsible for hardening the power grid are the same people that have been planning on taking it down.

I didn’t mean to imply they would hack anything, Bombs are easier.

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power grid taken out

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This is how they're going to institute reparations.