Some scary news from the front lines of the battle of “cyberespionage” was reported today: Cyberspies from foreign nations have penetrated the nation’s powergrid — and left various types of hidden software in place to have their way with the U.S. energy system pretty much whenever/however they decide to knock us around.
Seriously. This is NOT some sort of late April Fool’s joke, not some sort of tongue-in-cheek thing. This is the disturbing reality of living in our time. I don’t know about you, but I like to hope someone out there is doing something about this matter. Living in an area with miserable ice in the winter and unbearable humidity most of the rest of the year, I’m not thrilled about someone browning out or blacking out the power. For ANY reason.
So let’s get our IT acts together, people, and find a way to save America from this hideous stuff. Surely the nation that brought the world such minds as Edison, Ford, Tesla, and others (Was Tesla American? He lived here, anyway) can pull this one out of the fire? Can’t we? Can’t we??