re: #225 Belafon

From what I understand, any ability the Russians have to control our systems was done indirectly. The electric company may not have installed a remote switch to control breakers, but the company that makes a component may have installed a remote sensor on that equipment, and that remote sensor allowed access. The failure seems to be in imagination.

Go and read that Wired story on the Ukraine power grid hacks.

They gained access the same way they got into the DNC - spear-phishing passwords.

But what they did once they were in is frankly terrifying. And between the first and second power grid hacks they improved their methods. The second hack was way more precise and total than the first.

I shudder to think what the US populace, used to having their noses buried in their smart phones, would do if those little screens went blank for any amount of time.