After dirty bombs went away, the big threat terrorism-wise became our godawful national energy grid and how vulnerable it could be to hacking. With that recent attempt to poison the water supply of a city with lye, only stopped by one employee seeing the percentages being off, that's also a point of extreme vulnerability.
I would be curious to see what hackers could do in a moment like this. One state is having a Hurricane Katrina-level crisis. If it was pushed just a little further, that could be months without power in the state with the second highest GDP. Other states, including mine which is facing a stressed power grid with fully winterised infrastructure, are vulnerable in a kind of freak weather event that will only become more normal. The state with the highest GDP, California, is now perpetually on fire and its water supply is essential to combating the thing happening around its electrical grid.
As a propagandist threat Internet Research Agency rooskies are liberal hysteria. How many nerds did we need to put in a room to attack an Iranian nuclear power plant though? While this crisis isn't Putin scheming on an island shaped like a human skull, I think it gives a neat/horrifying preview of what hackers could cause or exacerbate. You don't need to be 100% successful and have 100% control of the national grid to seize on a moment like this. Fuck up that last 10% of the grid that states are depending on and it'd be an unprecedented cascading crisis.
To think this was all caused by.... (spins the wheel) : Russian Hackers
I knew it was them. Even when I didn't think it was them, I knew it was them.
After dirty bombs went away, the big threat terrorism-wise became our godawful national energy grid and how vulnerable it could be to hacking. With that recent attempt to poison the water supply of a city with lye, only stopped by one employee seeing the percentages being off, that's also a point of extreme vulnerability.
I would be curious to see what hackers could do in a moment like this. One state is having a Hurricane Katrina-level crisis. If it was pushed just a little further, that could be months without power in the state with the second highest GDP. Other states, including mine which is facing a stressed power grid with fully winterised infrastructure, are vulnerable in a kind of freak weather event that will only become more normal. The state with the highest GDP, California, is now perpetually on fire and its water supply is essential to combating the thing happening around its electrical grid.
As a propagandist threat Internet Research Agency rooskies are liberal hysteria. How many nerds did we need to put in a room to attack an Iranian nuclear power plant though? While this crisis isn't Putin scheming on an island shaped like a human skull, I think it gives a neat/horrifying preview of what hackers could cause or exacerbate. You don't need to be 100% successful and have 100% control of the national grid to seize on a moment like this. Fuck up that last 10% of the grid that states are depending on and it'd be an unprecedented cascading crisis.
Russian hackers have surpassed hacking into The Cloud and are now hacking the clouds confirmed.
LOL at Susan Sarandon!
I got China... and of course :agony-shrooms: