U.S Department of Energy Secretary commented on the situation less than an hour ago, indicating that their CESER team is activated - https://twitter.com/SecGranholm/status/1599556157898735618
Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack
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Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack
#92A grenade (or IED) or two thrown in coordination into a few of those local-area transformer / power distribution stations would cause state-level chaos. Where I live, these seemingly critical infrastructure outposts, are protected by nothing more than high chicken-wire fences. Cyber Squirrel is the best and longest-lived exemplification of the sensitivity and scale of this vulnerability: https://cybersquirrel1.com/ T…
Apparently "Lead time on replacement parts" is the biggest issue today with dealing with the issue in a prompt time frame. Maybe they should stock up on at least 1x set of repair parts that would take a long timeframe to replace?
Ukraine has shown how important electric substation part supply chains are.
Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack
#93DVEs have been talking about ways to target power substations for a while now. This is the first instance that I've seen of someone actually acting on that information. Background: https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/591331-dhs-warn... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/domestic-violent-extremists-plo...
DVE=Domestic Violent Extremist I believe...
Correct.
Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is a lot different from dumping a mag into one of the expensive and hard to replace components at a substation, then driving around to another substation and doing the same thing again. The large oil filled transformers get really expensive really fast.
I mean, it sounds like something that drunk or just stupid kids might do. Like smashing mailboxes, but scaled up.
The scale doesn't imply simple drunkness.
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#95Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack
#96NZ had a version of this recently too: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/479858/graham-philip-rec...
> "He felt that the views of those who opposed the government's actions weren't being heard, that the mainstream media weren't taking notice, that really it needed something to be done to promote those views," Nabney told the high Court.
And so he caused 1.2 million of damage to Electricity infrastructure. Tell me again why I'm the rambling conspiracy theorists for suspecting NZ is the target of disinformation trying to undermine trust in and the functioning of society..
Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack
#97I don't do a ton of Wikipedia editing these days, but nobody had started a page on the Moore County power substation attack yet, so I started it. If any of you folks are Wikipedians, feel free to jump in and help update the page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_County_substation_attack
Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack
#98Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack
#99Wait, so Ukraine can restore power in half a day in the middle of a war, but a county in the middle of the US takes a week?
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#100They don't like to use the words "domestic terrorism" when the people who did it are white.
Cite evidence? Buffalo and Michigan (which was done mostly by FBI informants)… media almost instantly labeled domestic terorrism.