Researchers Found They Could Hack Wind Farms

Re:Researchers Found They Could Hack Wind Farms by GavinMcG on Thursday June 29, 2017 @11:17AM (#14663948)

To be fair, throwing a pallet of bricks off a bridge wouldn't cause as much damage as causing 1% of an area's cars to crash, and it's a crime you actually have to be on site for.

People are quite reasonably more afraid of attack vectors that can affect huge numbers of people all at once, especially when the attacker could be anywhere in the world.

One obvious example of why that's reasonable is the recent ransomware – sure, you've always been able to easily extort $300 from someone, but now you can take money from a lot of people, and not get caught.

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Re:Researchers Found They Could Hack Wind Farms by digi_owl on Thursday June 29, 2017 @12:01PM (#14664312)

Hacking, witchcraft, radioactivity. They all have in common that they are something you can't see, hear, or smell coming at you. Thus they are anxiety inducing...

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Re:Researchers Found They Could Hack Wind Farms by fao_ on Thursday June 29, 2017 @01:58PM (#14665420)

Radioactivity is probable, but not likely. Locally we were advised not to eat sheep for about a decade because of ~an incident~ to do with radioactive material.

Hacking is something that is getting more and more likely by the day. First, WannaCry infects the world over and knocks out a hospital system. What's next? Pacemakers going offline? Insulin pumps being hacked? Hell, cars can already be hacked from a distance, internet connected cars aren't raising a risk factor by much, aside from it lengthening the distance at which you can do the hack.

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Re:Researchers Found They Could Hack Wind Farms by mannykannot on Thursday June 29, 2017 @12:41PM (#14664660)

In two of those cases, some level of anxiety is justifiable.

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Re:Researchers Found They Could Hack Wind Farms by optimuspaul on Thursday June 29, 2017 @01:34PM (#14665159)

Witchcraft and Radioactivity right?

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Re:Researchers Found They Could Hack Wind Farms by marcosdumay on Thursday June 29, 2017 @02:08PM (#14665506)

Well, probably. Unless you are stupid enough to plug your car to the internet.

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