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Power Grid kaput?
Topic Started: Apr 21 2016, 12:10 PM (195 Views)
edro14

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/a-new-american-power-struggle-looms/ar-BBs3z0g?ocid=spartandhp

Just after 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 23, 2015, a freezing day in Western Ukraine, an unknown hacker logged in to the Ivano-Frankivsk’s computerized electrical grid control center and, in a few seconds, abruptly shut down all electricity to the area’s 225,000 residents. The effects were immediate and far reaching. Traffic lights turned off. Televisions powered down. As night fell, the area plunged into darkness — no lights, no heat. It was a complete blackout.

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“If the goal of the ‘bad guys’ is to collapse the U.S. economic system, they are going to try to cut off the power,” Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Pa., said at a subcommittee hearing of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee last week. “Our national security, public safety, economic competitiveness and personal privacy are at risk.
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