Calm down folks. The guy worked at FERC. Chances are he’s an accounting type. The attack was on a substation NOT A POWER PLANT. The substation was back up in less than a month. All of the equipment is normally available as spares.
Yeah just a dry run it doesn’t mean a thing. Something so simple couldn’t led to anything big like 9-11 or something...
Understand your point.
But after reading the entire WSJ story, this was a pretty sophisticated attack, which was what the Navy Seals brought in as consultants described it as.
Who did this and what was the motive?
The substation was back up in less than a month. All of the equipment is normally available as spares.
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I read the entire WSJ article last night and I don’t feel a bit calm. Yes, the substation was up in less than a month, but they had to do substantial rerouting around it. Had several substations been taken out at the same time, it would probably have resulted in a widespread blackout. If you had enough people to do this across the U.S. at the same time, it would take a loooooong time to get it all back up again. As for the parts, the WSJ article stated that while they have a *few* extras, they don’t have many, and it takes quite some time to manufacture more.