Hackers cut Power
 

One of those small articles in the local paper:

"hackers literally turned out the lights in multiple cities after breaking into electrical utilities and demanding extortion payments before disrupting power, a senior CIA analyst told utility engineers at a trade conference...."

All the break-ins occured outside the U.S.

Guys, I tried to find a link to the entire story, but my search skills are limited.

Details given were very sketchy. Kind of scary stuff, though. Any overseas posters know anything about this?

should be on AP Newswire - which is online too somewhere

not too scary - I'm used to having the power go off every hurricane season when I was growing up. Later, I spent 8 months a year in the back-country with just a backpacking stove or a fire.

I've still got several small stoves and the house has a fireplace...

Paul - here is a TechDirt Article on it:

http://techdirt.com/articles/20080118/181113.shtml

CIA web site may have press release also

Randy...you can read the entire article, page A-2, this morn's OREGONIAN. If you have a scanner, perhaps you could post it? Sure, no problem surviving a few days without power...but possible terrorism implications. I'm thinking these overseas incidents may have been only a test? Think what a long power outage could do to our already shaky financial markets, business relying on power for computers, etc...

I have my own gererator:D

I don't have a generator.

But my neighbor has a generator, and I have a Sig Sauer:)

yeah, good thing we're out in the desert installing democracy. That'll stop this kind of nonsense.

oh wait...

Coupled with a "cool collar" for the summer months, and I'm all set :).

ps: HD, his reference is before you probably joined the circus here, but Flatt can spell, and that wasn't a typo.