[Interest] the path forward - that 7 year thing - was, willy-nilly

[Roland Hughes]

On 3/26/21 9:23 AM, eric.fedosejevs at gmail.com wrote:
>
> There are much worse possible outcomes than spoiled food. 
> “App-controlled” smart ovens are now all the rage. Even if there are 
> safety measures to prevent remotely burning down your house, what 
> fraction of ovens in a community do you need to simultaneously preheat 
> to bring down the entire electrical grid? Probably not too many. The 
> grid is designed for small and continuous changes in demand, not large 
> and coordinated changes due to an IoT attack. Once the grid is down, 
> it can take a long time to bring back up due to a lack of investment 
> in black start capacity.
>
> https://www.welivesecurity.com/2018/09/06/madiot-home-appliances-power-grids/ 
> <https://www.welivesecurity.com/2018/09/06/madiot-home-appliances-power-grids/>
>
> Qt Co. is in for quite the surprise when new regulations are 
> introduced and Agile development/subscription toolkit licensing are 
> driven out of the IoT market. But is current management capable of 
> looking that far ahead?
>

Agreed. I just didn't want to go too deep on the "why" said regulation 
is coming. Every country that currently has regulations on medical and 
SAFETY devices will impose regulation on the IoT market and it will be 
the same draconian (by some descriptions) stuff imposed on the 
human/animal life world. Why? Because even something like a FitBit, if 
it connects to the Internet, can be used as part of a swarm for an attack.

Thank God none of the nuclear power plants in America have any 
connection to the Internet. At least the control systems don't.

https://blog.ucsusa.org/edwin-lyman/6-things-to-know-about-the-2020-cyberattack-and-nuclear-power-plants

The electrical grid, however, is not so well protected.

I was in a 20-something floor apartment that weekend day when a Chicago 
power station detonated. Just a few blocks away from where I was at 
"they" actually talked someone into holding a fire hose and continuously 
spraying that power station to keep it from going up.

Power station may be the incorrect term. I didn't look up the proper 
name. Am to this day floored that someone could be talked into spraying 
water on electrical equipment with something like a Terawatt of power 
going through it.

> -- 

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