Firstly go here and read this story completely, even if you don't completely grasp what they are talking about, that will be remedied shortly.
To put it bluntly the plot line of Die Hard: Live Free or Die Hard is one more step closer to coming true. With the bad guys in control of our grids its only a matter of time before a coordinated effort will plunge the entire country into total chaos. Now I'm not one to jump on the fear bandwagon but this is definitely one that makes me give serious consideration to my level of preparedness should I wake up one morning to find that the electricity to my apartment is off and not because of non-payment or any of the more normal and acceptable reasons. The fact that this has already happened in at least one spot according to the CIA should be grounds for some serious backlash from the public, but I fear at the first mention of hackers, SCADA or anything technological 99% of the country begins ignoring things because they consider it computerese and not something that is very real and very possible. It really is a shame that more people don't understand what this could mean for them should someone really attempt to pull off a 'fire sale', I can only hope (and thats probably wasted effort) that this mess gets sorted before someone does something incredibly stupid and fucks up the whole country.
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