{"id":9202,"date":"2015-11-02T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=9202"},"modified":"2015-11-02T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T20:00:07","slug":"what-it-would-really-take-to-knock-out-the-power-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/02\/what-it-would-really-take-to-knock-out-the-power-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"What it Would Really Take to Knock Out the Power Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/defense-large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9203\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/defense-large.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"defense-large\" width=\"620\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>As our electrical system lifts itself out of the stone age, the defense built around it will require added vigilance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><strong>My favorite joke when I was 5 <\/strong>years old was, \u201cWhere will you be when the lights go out?\u201d The answer, of course, is \u201cin the dark,\u201d though I used to make my very patient sister guess a bunch of other places first, which I used to think was absolutely\u00a0hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>We are fortunate that in this country having the lights unexpectedly go out is actually a pretty big deal, and quite rare. You don\u2019t have to wonder whether the light will come on when you throw the switch, or if your computer will have enough power to boot up. The sodas in the fridge are always cold and our showers are always warm. It always just happens, so we more or less take it for\u00a0granted.<\/p>\n<p>That comfortable reliance on modern, powered conveniences is one of the things terrorists really hate about us. So, it was no surprise <span class=\"caps\">CNN<\/span> reported this week that <span class=\"caps\">ISIL<\/span> is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2015\/10\/15\/technology\/isis-energy-grid\/index.html?iid=ob_homepage_tech_pool&amp;iid=obnetwork\">trying to attack<\/a>\u00a0the utilities grid. The interesting thing is, the spin that federal officials were putting on the story is that the attacks have been largely unsuccessful, and that the terrorists have little capability to enact a major attack against a utility. But that is kind of a misconception based on the two different types of networks found at most\u00a0utilities.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/ideas\/2015\/10\/what-it-would-really-take-knock-out-power-grid\/123305\/?oref=defenseone_today_nl\"> Defense One<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As our electrical system lifts itself out of the stone age, the defense built around it will require added vigilance. My favorite joke when I was 5 years old was, \u201cWhere will you be when the lights go out?\u201d The answer, of course, is \u201cin the dark,\u201d though I used to make my very patient&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[84,2359,2161,118,272],"tags":[2778,2779,898,2780,2781,2782],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}