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Re:SATCOM terminals under attack in Europe: a plausible anal... by londons_explore on Monday March 07, 2022 @03:58PM (#30593240)
Having to visit every turbine to replace a satellite modem doesn't sound like a super large challenge at nation-state scale.
Re:SATCOM terminals under attack in Europe: a plausible anal... by lxgr on Monday March 07, 2022 @07:51PM (#30595256)
That's assuming that there is enough personnel and spare hardware available, which is not a given even outside of an ongoing supply chain crisis.
Re:SATCOM terminals under attack in Europe: a plausible anal... by mschuster91 on Monday March 07, 2022 @04:27PM (#30593539)
The problem is once again our godawful prior government. Many tens of thousands of jobs in the wind industry have vanished over the last years [1] because the Conservatives oppose renewable power and impeded it wherever possible - if it is because of corruption, incompetence, fear of the far-right that outright demonizes anything not fossil or nuclear I don't know. In any case, we simply don't have the staff to visit literally thousands of wind turbines, a lot of which are actually offshore, simply to replace routers.

This situation is an unbelievable clusterfuck.

[1]: https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/wirtschaft/windkraft-industri...