Recent regional power outages that left some in the dark for days
are
a chilling glimpse of a nationwide threat that could lead to the complete
shutdown of the country's defenses, a former CIA director says.
Most in the Washington area were without power for at least a few hours following
a derecho of historic
proportions, and some fell off the grid for almost a week.
R. James Woolsey Jr., CIA director under Bill Clinton and board member of the
International Spy Museum, says a very real cybersecurity threat could sweep
electrical grids throughout the country leaving the military and intelligence
communities in a similar quagmire.
A complete absence of organization to combat these threats could
take down the
entire system for significantly longer than a few days, he says.
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Just a matter of time before the taxpayers will be forced to subsidize the upgrades the utility companies should have taken care of instead of pocketing the profits.
ReplyDeleteI guess I should add that an upgrade to the grid would at least provide both labor and highly skilled jobs for a number of years so that's a positive.
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