Lets see all the suggestions here as a desk exercise and then look at each from a feasibility point. Even though some are unlikely, some may even be possible - and you can't justify protecting every major power hub in a country without plausible reason - much less every major power line.
I wouldn't define your info as paranoid, I think that what you state is informative.
The power grid in any randomly selected country that has a high tech level is sensitive to attacks. Redundancy is to cover for normal faults, not terrorism.
A platoon would be more than sufficient to cause major trouble in the US and to take out the grid completely in a single state or European country.
If you want to create problems you only need a few men with rifles and locate major power grid hubs. Good rifle skills are needed. But the first aim shall be the power breakers, with them disabled, preferably locked in the 'on' position it's a lot harder to isolate damages to other sections. Then damage the transformers since they are hard to replace. Many grid hubs are unmanned, which would make the job easy.
What will happen with the Swedish Gripen planes is that they probably will upgrade the existing aircrafts to the E version, not necessarily purchase brand new.
Also be aware that it's the Gripen/E that Brazil will get. Improved specs over earlier versions.
The original design was done to allow it to be serviced by conscripts with a relatively short education using roads as runways. Therefore it was designed to have a relatively short take-off and landing distance. Things that may make a difference when things gets hot.
I agree - there's always the easy way these days, tag it as "child porn" and people will bring out the feathers and tar and all chances of a reasonable handling in court are gone.
From my perspective the use for NSA in going into the gamer realm would be more an exercise in infiltration techniques than any real threat hunt. Even covert agents needs training.
It can also be a great channel for information exchange between NSA agents.
The possibility to actually gather any useful real world intelligence from online multi-player games is at best questionable unless they have targeted a specific person that's identified already outside the game.
And also explains why people think that I'm weird.
Most creative works has been done by people not conforming to what the general population thinks. Leonardo da Vinci, Alexander the Great, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Chaplin... All were very good in their specific way. Of course - creativity also has to be combined with hard work to succeed.
On the Higgs boson that may be, but for the subject of TFA the Nobel Prize is not of any concern. The only reason why it was mentioned was to (redundantly) remind people that Higgs do have some academic weight due to the Prize.
It also tells us about the way our politicians wants us to go - go in public transportation, don't think for yourself. Back to the "Metropolis" of Fritz Lang.
Enforce mandatory vaccination at certain stages in life or for certain services.
And for those that can't provide proof of vaccination - deny education, passport, driving license and other services. If you don't have protections offered by the government then you shouldn't have any services by it either.
Change the Copyright law so that the creator(s) of a work never ever can transfer the copyright - they shall only be able to grant non-exclusive publishing rights.
This means that no publisher shall be able to bully themselves to the position where they are in control of the information - it's the creator.
Here in Sweden we have a service called "Techleaks" (https://www.techleaks.se/sa-kontaktar-du-oss-via-techleaks.html), use Google Translate to get another language if needed.
This seems to be a way if nobody in top management listens.
One way to indicate to upper management - change the priority to the other projects and let things like printers and network problems go unresolved and state that it won't be fixed until we have achieved milestone Y for project X.
When the CEO comes in and rambles about printers not working - then let him choose between printer and a penalty for not meeting deadline for project X.
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Lets see all the suggestions here as a desk exercise and then look at each from a feasibility point. Even though some are unlikely, some may even be possible - and you can't justify protecting every major power hub in a country without plausible reason - much less every major power line.
It's a question of what you hit and with which kind of bullet. Find the critical key parts and damage them.
But I would definitely not use a .22 rifle, I would at least go up to 7.65mm or similar using full metal jacket which can penetrate metal a bit better.
Sensitive points are the ceramic insulators. But control motors for switches and breakers are also good targets.
I wouldn't define your info as paranoid, I think that what you state is informative.
The power grid in any randomly selected country that has a high tech level is sensitive to attacks. Redundancy is to cover for normal faults, not terrorism.
A platoon would be more than sufficient to cause major trouble in the US and to take out the grid completely in a single state or European country.
If you want to create problems you only need a few men with rifles and locate major power grid hubs. Good rifle skills are needed. But the first aim shall be the power breakers, with them disabled, preferably locked in the 'on' position it's a lot harder to isolate damages to other sections. Then damage the transformers since they are hard to replace. Many grid hubs are unmanned, which would make the job easy.
And what's probably worse - a lot of the major grid hubs are unmanned and can be taken out by a single person with a rifle.
When a company starts to fight other companies in court for patent issues it's a sign that the company is in decline and is losing its edge.
Just increase the disk array size and copy the data as it grows to larger and larger storage systems. Data that's offline is useless.
Unless it's published in a newspaper or magazine that is widespread. But printed matter seems to be on a decay.
What will happen with the Swedish Gripen planes is that they probably will upgrade the existing aircrafts to the E version, not necessarily purchase brand new.
Also be aware that it's the Gripen/E that Brazil will get. Improved specs over earlier versions.
The original design was done to allow it to be serviced by conscripts with a relatively short education using roads as runways. Therefore it was designed to have a relatively short take-off and landing distance. Things that may make a difference when things gets hot.
Skip the mandates, just tax the fossil fuels more and let the oil companies work out alternate solutions for fuel from renewable sources.
The benefit of taxing is that it might help the budget deficit too.
And that is not a problem, it's just one step back and two forward for them. "Oops I did it again!"
I agree - there's always the easy way these days, tag it as "child porn" and people will bring out the feathers and tar and all chances of a reasonable handling in court are gone.
If they want the item back then they need to provide postage and packaging.
And they can't expect it to be returned unopened or without scratches.
It may cost them more in handling to get the items returned than to call it a day and cut the losses.
A good encryption is beautiful and simple while still completely unpredictable unless you have the right key.
The less code that you have to use to perform the encryption the better.
From my perspective the use for NSA in going into the gamer realm would be more an exercise in infiltration techniques than any real threat hunt. Even covert agents needs training.
It can also be a great channel for information exchange between NSA agents.
The possibility to actually gather any useful real world intelligence from online multi-player games is at best questionable unless they have targeted a specific person that's identified already outside the game.
And also explains why people think that I'm weird.
Most creative works has been done by people not conforming to what the general population thinks. Leonardo da Vinci, Alexander the Great, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Chaplin... All were very good in their specific way. Of course - creativity also has to be combined with hard work to succeed.
On the Higgs boson that may be, but for the subject of TFA the Nobel Prize is not of any concern. The only reason why it was mentioned was to (redundantly) remind people that Higgs do have some academic weight due to the Prize.
And that was in Switzerland a century ago.
Patent offices today are flooded with weird stuff and almost nothing is rejected because it won't matter in most cases.
It also tells us about the way our politicians wants us to go - go in public transportation, don't think for yourself. Back to the "Metropolis" of Fritz Lang.
No, it's an act of god if you get sick.
Enforce mandatory vaccination at certain stages in life or for certain services.
And for those that can't provide proof of vaccination - deny education, passport, driving license and other services. If you don't have protections offered by the government then you shouldn't have any services by it either.
Change the Copyright law so that the creator(s) of a work never ever can transfer the copyright - they shall only be able to grant non-exclusive publishing rights.
This means that no publisher shall be able to bully themselves to the position where they are in control of the information - it's the creator.
Here in Sweden we have a service called "Techleaks" (https://www.techleaks.se/sa-kontaktar-du-oss-via-techleaks.html), use Google Translate to get another language if needed.
This seems to be a way if nobody in top management listens.
One way to indicate to upper management - change the priority to the other projects and let things like printers and network problems go unresolved and state that it won't be fixed until we have achieved milestone Y for project X.
When the CEO comes in and rambles about printers not working - then let him choose between printer and a penalty for not meeting deadline for project X.