Posted: 20 Mar 2014 03:05 AM PDT
What
would you do if the Internet or the power grid went down for over a
year? Our key infrastructure, including the Internet and the power
grid, is far more vulnerable than most people would dare to imagine.
These days, most people simply take for granted that the lights will
always be on and that the Internet will always function properly. But
what if all that changed someday in the blink of an eye? According to
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's latest report, all it would
take to plunge the entire nation into darkness for more than a year
would be to knock out a transformer manufacturer and just 9 of our
55,000 electrical substations on a really hot summer day. The reality
of the matter is that our power grid is in desperate need of updating,
and there is very little or no physical security at most of these
substations. If terrorists, or saboteurs, or special operations forces
wanted to take down our power grid, it would not be very difficult. And
as you will read about later in this article, the Internet is extremely
vulnerable as well
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