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Massive Power Outages In Brazil Caused By Hackers
Hugh Pickens writes "CBS reports on 60 minutes that a massive two-day power outage in Brazil's Espirito Santo State affecting more than three million people in 2007, and another, smaller event in three cities north of Rio de Janeiro in January 2005, were perpetrated by hackers manipulating control systems. Former Chief of US National Intelligence Retired Adm. Mike McConnell says that the 'United States is not prepared for such an attack' and believes it could happen in America. 'If I were an attacker and wanted to do strategic damage to the United States, I would either take the cold of winter or the heat of summer,' says McConnell, 'I would probably sack electric power on the US East Coast, maybe the West Coast and attempt to cause a cascading effect.' Congressman Jim Langevin says that US power companies need to be forced to deal with the issue after they told Congress they would take steps to defend their operations but did not follow up. 'They admit that they misled Congress. The private sector has different priorities than we do in providing security. Their bottom line is about profits,' says Langevin. 'We need to change their motivation so that when see vulnerability like this, we can require them to fix it.' McConnell adds that a similar attack to the one in Brazil is poised to take place on US soil and that it may take some horrific event to get the country focused on shoring up cyber security. 'If the power grid was taken off line in the middle of winter and it caused people to suffer and die, that would galvanize the nation. I hope we don't get there.'"
Be careful you don't bite off more than you can chew.
If I have seen further it is by stealing the Intellectual Property of giants.
I appreciate your effort in trying to educate me. At this point I am willing to throw in the towel and to concede your point! I would also like to thank you to keep this exchange civil, unlike certain other people... So, in summary, I will mend my "evil" ways from now on and remember to be more accepting of the custom of calling the United States of America simply "America", no matter what the origin may be. Actually, I have many good friends that are Americans! And I usually don't give them a hard time about almost anything. :)
When 1person suffers from a delusion,it is called insanity.When many people suffer from a delusion,it is called religion
I've seen these stories floated on other sites for days now.