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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?
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01-19-2008, 08:59 AM
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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... |
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01-19-2008, 10:42 AM
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Paul - here is a TechDirt Article on it:
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080118/181113.shtml CIA web site may have press release also |
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01-19-2008, 11:01 AM
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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...
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01-19-2008, 11:04 AM
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I have my own gererator
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01-19-2008, 11:23 AM
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I don't have a generator.
But my neighbor has a generator, and I have a Sig Sauer 
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01-19-2008, 11:32 AM
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yeah, good thing we're out in the desert installing democracy. That'll stop this kind of nonsense.
oh wait... |
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01-19-2008, 11:43 AM
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01-19-2008, 05:12 PM
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