The power grid hacking story is big but this is also nothing new or unforeseen. Also worth noting there is no "national power grid."
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Knowledge of power gen/xmit systems is narrow and there are probably an order of magnitude fewer experts than in say web infrastructure.
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Power grid security has been an active area of research. There are 79 SBIR/STTR awards mentioning "power grid". Here are a few:
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All are research contracts, not necessarily implementation plans.pic.twitter.com/rkeevNMf7U
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In other words, this story is shocking only in the timing and circumstance of its revelation, not that it happened at all.
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it’s a thing grid security obama’s white house has been telling power companies they need to invest in, since ’09, too.
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Heh. And since 1998 when "Y2K" reached scream levels.
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