Re:The Threat to Americas Electrical Grid Is Bigger Than Ima...
by mark_l_watson on Monday September 12, 2016 @10:47AM
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I think a US Army report had the figure higher than 80%.
A small thought experiment: imagine that you live in a city and for 1 year there was no electricity, no trash pickup, likely no water to drink and to flush toilets, and no gas for cars and trucks.
I think this scenario is very unlikely, but it is still worthwhile hardening this infrastructure.
I admit to being cautious. If it were up to me, I would also spend a lot of resources hardening computing systems: servers in business, kids' school laptops, home computers, IoT, network infrastructure, etc. would have maximum crypto, and we would have a "going to the moon" level effort pushing those aspects of computer science for general security issues.
A small thought experiment: imagine that you live in a city and for 1 year there was no electricity, no trash pickup, likely no water to drink and to flush toilets, and no gas for cars and trucks.
I think this scenario is very unlikely, but it is still worthwhile hardening this infrastructure.
I admit to being cautious. If it were up to me, I would also spend a lot of resources hardening computing systems: servers in business, kids' school laptops, home computers, IoT, network infrastructure, etc. would have maximum crypto, and we would have a "going to the moon" level effort pushing those aspects of computer science for general security issues.