Posted on 12/07/2018 6:03:37 AM PST by RoosterRedux
I’ve heard this crap for 40 years
It’s just that
Yep. Thinking back to not allowing the QCOMM deal....
So I guess our only way to solve this is to perform EMP attacks on our main enemies before they do it to us
I haevn’t read the two follow ups. I should.
No it hasn't, yet. But keep in mind that our dependence on electronic infrastructure is still very new to civilization. There has been an event in recent history, shortly before the electronic era, that looks like it would have very severe consequences if it were to happen today.
The Carrington Event: https://www.history.com/news/a-perfect-solar-superstorm-the-1859-carrington-event
Something like this is, IMHO, far more likely and dangerous than a man-made EMP attack.
Remember those anti-nerve agent pills they had us taking when the ground offensive opened up? Those were a real treat...
There are attempts, sure. But with CIP in full swing across utilities it is impossible to get to SCADA networks unless your are strictly granted access. Only a saboteur that already works for a utility could cause havoc. The SCADA network is highly isolated. It would just be easier to have a four man team shoot up some of the heavy transformers (A test run was done in L.A. in 2015. The attackers had lots of time to shoot at the transformer. They also knew exactly how to disable alarms/alerts buy cutting the right fiber runs). That is where we are exposed.
After 36 hours, I quit taking that pill. I was supposed to plot 100 points on a map each night (2 AM). Without the pill, I could do this in 40 minutes. With the pill, it took 90 minutes. Some guy took three pills one night, and was looped up in the toilet for five hours.
I was Air Force Active Duty from 1976 - 1998.
We made every effort without expense in $ and lives to find out where the Soviet and ChiCom LEADERSHIP would hide in a nuke war, and put many additional resources on those targets, effectively making them very deep craters if the balloon went up.
We then made every effort to let the Russkies and Chicoms know where knew where their holes were, and we were gunning for them there.
This is why Ted Kennedy complained about all the extra bombs we had planned for certain places, which he said, “Would just make the rubble bounce.”
Little did he know.
The Russkies found out we knew their hidey holes, and along with Reagan’s Space Defense Initiative, almost freaked out about what to do.
Believe me, this was one aspect were we “convinced” them THEY (Personally) wouldn’t win.
From this, they lost their will. It wasn’t peristorka or glasnost under Gorbachev, it was visions of Chairman, vice chairmen, mistresses, and Admirals and Generals of the Soviet Union dying in a glowing rubble pile that did the Soviet Union in.
It’s one thing for Uncle Yuri to know that poor Ivan and Svetlana had to die for the greater glory of the Soviet peoples, but quite another when Uncle Yuri found out he himself would die. Same for Chairman Tse!
There are 9 substations around the region that if all taken out simultaneously would take down the entire NE grid. Substations like the one in LA are basically totally accessible so it could be done with firepower but cyber hacking is likely the way it will happen. Our power grid is very vulnerable. Anytime somebody tells you it cannot be hacked it just hasn’t happened yet.
Way more than 9 substations. My utility alone has almost double that.
As far as hacking a way into the grid, my utility has nothing in scada land connected to the internet. Even with the access I have it’s damn near impossible to get into the systems for scheduled maintenance.
I’m not going to disclose how we hardened the systems on an open forum, sufficed to say we get both state and federal audits frequently that are no joke.
I agree however, I can’t speak of other utilities and their current progress on becoming CIP compliant. Until they are CIP compliant they are at risk.
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