Comments on: Intruder alert. Hacking the electrical grid http://polizeros.com/2008/06/28/intruder-alert-hacking-the-electrical-grid/ Musings on politics: anti-war, global warming, peak oil and otherwise Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:39:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: UJ http://polizeros.com/2008/06/28/intruder-alert-hacking-the-electrical-grid/comment-page-1/#comment-153599 UJ Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:02:27 +0000 http://polizeros.com/?p=12032#comment-153599 The China connection was a total hoax. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/former-white-ho.html In fact, the whole "cyber-armageddon" paradigm in which one completely disables an opponent with hacking is seen as a bit of fantasy by security strategists, along the lines of super drugs and sleeper cells. Much the same way a sleeper cell seems catastrophically dangerous but is quite impossible to create and maintain, a cyber attack able to render an enemy completely defenseless and disabled would be an amazing albeit unattainable and impossible offensive capability. When you're dealing with military THEORY on the level of state vs state, it's very simple for the imagination to run wild. The China connection was a total hoax.

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In fact, the whole “cyber-armageddon” paradigm in which one completely disables an opponent with hacking is seen as a bit of fantasy by security strategists, along the lines of super drugs and sleeper cells. Much the same way a sleeper cell seems catastrophically dangerous but is quite impossible to create and maintain, a cyber attack able to render an enemy completely defenseless and disabled would be an amazing albeit unattainable and impossible offensive capability. When you’re dealing with military THEORY on the level of state vs state, it’s very simple for the imagination to run wild.

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