Comments on: Hackers to blame for power outages?

By: chevy code

chevy code — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:02:14 +0000

chevy code…

As people get older, you see, there ears tend to attenuate higher frequencies….

By: toilet hole

toilet hole — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:32:21 +0000

toilet hole…

I think you are most probably right….

By: dm60462

dm60462 — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:05:18 +0000

Watch section 4 "The Power Grid"

By: coldfront

coldfront — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:05:03 +0000

It strikes me that the best prep for these Net terrorist acts is to prepare one’s own situation to survive these events should they come.
A dry food storage is good. Fill those empty juice bottles w/water & find a place to put them. Date & Rotate food. Toilet paper & buckets to catch rain water for flushing in worse case scenerios….remember, power runs just about everything! Aminal supplies should also be rotated.
Put yourself through the mental exercise of a ‘what if?’ situation. Candles, matches kept dry. Those NASA thermal tinfoil looking blankets for your elderly….stuff like this.
It is way past the point of this could happen…better to be @ least slightly prepared.
As for the lights out?!!!
‘Ye though I walk through the Valley of Darkness I shall fear no evil. Thy rod & thy staff are my guide.’ …..& He will be my Light.
didn’t mean to be so long winded…sorry.

By: Blind_Mule

Blind_Mule — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:47:53 +0000

katieanne said:
Pathetic. Where’s the protection for computer systems? Surely, there are experts who could protect these things from hackers.

We do have people that protect these system’s, the problem is it’s like a war the enemy pokes at your defense’s until they find a hole and then attack it with full force, we plug the hole and they search for another, as long as there are anarchist hacker’s and countries paying them the war goes on.

By: Neocon News » Live Free or Die Hard, Anyone?

Neocon News » Live Free or Die Hard, Anyone? — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:25:46 +0000

[...] liked this better the first time, when it was Die Hard 4. (h/t: Michelle Malkin) WASHINGTON (AP) — Hackers literally turned out the lights in multiple cities after breaking into [...]

By: Common Sense

Common Sense — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:35:16 +0000

They use EMP weapons in the Matrix movies….

By: katieanne

katieanne — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:13:52 +0000

Pathetic. Where’s the protection for computer systems? Surely, there are experts who could protect these things from hackers.

By: chow

chow — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:18:25 +0000

The last I heard, (and this was almost 10 years ago), they station had 4 Windows NT 4 servers monitoring things, and at least two of them crashed every day.

This is one of the consequences of using closed source software. The user really does not know what he/she is using. I have used dos/windows for over 12 years (from about 88-00) and was constantly at risk from various viri and malware. Since switching to Linux, at about 01 I never had so much as computer lock up and my primary server has been running without a reboot since moving to my present location last may.

By: GAP

GAP — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:18:02 +0000

This sounds a lot like the plot from “Live Free or Die Hard” from this past Summer. Creepy.

By: zorro

zorro — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:58:13 +0000

Knowing the threat exist helps with preparation. Let’s just hope the wheels are turning and countermeasures are in place.

By: purplepeep

purplepeep — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:43:38 +0000

Number 2 said:
Wasn’t this the plot of Die Hard 4?

Kinda reminds me of “Wargames”.

By: purplepeep

purplepeep — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:40:05 +0000

having such a violent reaction that an enormous generator shudders as it flies apart and belches black-and-white smoke.

I might be old-fashioned when it comes to this sort of thing, but shouldn’t such important parts of the energy infrastructure be offline?

By: hadsil

hadsil — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:12:44 +0000

ACLU protesting the government looking into foreign power grids and internet connection without a warrant in 5, 4, 3, …

By: josetheguerilla

josetheguerilla — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:51:34 +0000

Blind_Mule—

Thanks for your resonse to my question.

And grandolphxx—–an EMP would be a freaken nightmare!!!