FBI investigating ‘military-style’ attack on California power plant | The Verge
The incident has raised concerns that the US government is not adequately protecting its physical infrastructure, focusing increasingly on cyber crime. “There are ways that a very few number of actors with very rudimentary equipment could take down large portions of our grid,” John Wellinghoff, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said at a recent event sponsored by Bloomberg. “I don’t think we have the level of physical security we need.” However, although even nuclear power plants are known to be vulnerable, a concerted, militarized effort to attack them has yet to take place.
It’s probably nothing. Now go back to sleep.
Power plants have inadequate security.
Power substations have no security.
Sleep tight!
I don’t believe it is possible to “adequately protect the physical infrastructure” — there is just too much of it scattered all over the place. I get tired of supposed experts talking about THE GRID. There are actually three: the Eastern Grid, the Western Grid, and Texas, interconnected by AC-DC-AC links for technical reasons.
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