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Re:What Happened in the UK Blackouts? by _def on Sunday September 01, 2019 @10:45AM (#20852534)
Reminds me of stuxnet
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Re:What Happened in the UK Blackouts? by FartyMcFarter on Sunday September 01, 2019 @12:08PM (#20852986)
Stuxnet was damaging equipment by running it in slightly bad ways once in a while.

That seems to be a quite different attack from something that causes a sudden outage.

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Re:What Happened in the UK Blackouts? by kylegordon on Sunday September 01, 2019 @11:43AM (#20852847)
Likewise. Sadly not many people in this thread seem to be aware of this method.
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