[77032] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Survey of interest ..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Crist Clark)
Tue Jan 11 17:14:01 2005
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:13:29 -0800
From: Crist Clark <crist.clark@globalstar.com>
In-reply-to: <200501112015.j0BKF2Bk024184@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>,
Robert Mathews <mathews@hawaii.edu>,
North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
Reply-To: crist.clark@globalstar.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
[snip]
> I'll predict that if we *don't* have an attack on the power grid in the
> next 10 years, it's because the attackers have come up with something else
> they consider even more interesting as a target. A downed power line, even
> though it may have more economic impact, has less emotional impact.....
And between natural disasters, ice storms, fat operator fingers, and
hot evenings that strain the grid to breaking, most people have delt
with power outages enough that there is nothing novel about them. These
regular outages do not cause sigificant injury or loss of life. Not a
lot there to cause terror.
OTOH, coordinating an attack on a power grid with some other attack(s),
that could get them some bang for the buck.
Remember that last big one in the northeast? The government kept
reassuring that it wasn't terrorism... like that means there isn't a
security issue. If a few dopes at a one power company can collapse the
whole northeast grid, there IS a security problem.
--
Crist J. Clark crist.clark@globalstar.com
Globalstar Communications (408) 933-4387
