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Hacks on Gas (and the Grid): Cybersecurity, Energy and National Defense
Forbes: Whenever a doomsday scenario involving the nation’s computer networks is invoked, invariably one aspect of it involves a massive disruption of the electrical grid. Computers go haywire, expensive and scarce hardware is destroyed, and a large segment of the populace can be left to cope without electricity for extended periods. Of course natural disasters demonstrate that outages can occur regularly in the United States, particularly in the wake of weather-related events, but there are valid concerns about how computer control of energy generation and distribution might bear the brunt of a significant cyber attack.
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