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Re:The Threat to Americas Electrical Grid Is Bigger Than Ima... by TeMPOraL on Sunday September 11, 2016 @03:42PM (#12475232)
> Everything that has an off switch has an on switch.

Not really. The ultimate off switch for every appliance is that appliance burning out. And quite a lot of dangers to the power grid include, or would cause, physical destruction of key infrastructure elements.

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Re:The Threat to Americas Electrical Grid Is Bigger Than Ima... by munin on Sunday September 11, 2016 @04:02PM (#12475357)
that scenario is covered in the second paragraph ;)
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