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RE: CIA says hackers pulled plug on power grid

How stupid are utilities to have process control systems connected to the Internet? Next thing we'll hear about is "Hacker Melts Down Nuclear Reactor".

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One directional thinking (Houdini Effect)

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Everyone expects a safe to keep people out, but never to keep people in.

We are approaching the electrical grid problem from one direction.

Think of it this way, we try to keep people out using security methods on a data network, but electrical grids supply power.

What if you could attack an electrical grid from the very thing that it is trying to produce?

How could BPL, IPv6, and a ubiquitous wireless network be used to shutdown electrical grids all over the world within 10 minutes?

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