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Re:European wind-energy sector hit in wave of hacks by ceejayoz on Monday April 25, 2022 @09:56PM (#31163150)
> A hacker who manages to infect the industrial equipment that controls wind turbines could manipulate the machines’ brakes to stop power production, said Trond Solbert, managing director for cybersecurity at Norwegian risk-management company DNV GL.

Do that to a couple thousand wind turbines and yes, "better buy their gas now". Even better if you do it the other direction - take the brakes off in a storm, and you get https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3tqjuvy7i0.

There's a lot of interest in this sort of thing. https://www.wired.com/story/how-30-lines-of-code-blew-up-27-...

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Re:European wind-energy sector hit in wave of hacks by ajsnigrutin on Monday April 25, 2022 @10:04PM (#31163197)
Yeah... not buying it. If russia did that, it would make them even less likely to buy russian gas again... they'd probably just buy overly expensive electricity from neighboring countries and fix their wind production.
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Re:European wind-energy sector hit in wave of hacks by kadoban on Monday April 25, 2022 @10:15PM (#31163263)
> even less likely to buy russian gas again

They're _currently_ buying Russian gas.

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Re:European wind-energy sector hit in wave of hacks by EdwardDiego on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @06:37AM (#31165789)
> If russia did that

And they'd be able to prove that how?

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