Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant for 4 days(telegraph.co.uk) |
Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant for 4 days(telegraph.co.uk) |
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The simple truth right now is that China, Iran, and North Korea, are actively hacking out companies and infrastructure. It’s a sort of Cold War.
What for?
They could do with a dose of reality, IMHO.
And the same BBC article says that the Telegraph reported it as "the power plant was shut down for four days", whereas on the other hand, the UK Government DESNZ said it only "affected a small-scale generator" not even an entire power plant.
It's always difficult in these situations to read through the FUD and see what the truth is.
The people who give us this sort of wisdom discredit themselves by proving they relate like credulous children to whatever news source they are using.
This story does not look real.
1: https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/fines-bans-forced-new...
What I think you’re doing is misinterpreting the wests disgust at Trumps war with Iran as favouring Iran when in fact what we actually feel is disdain for both parties.
I, personally, have a lot more mistrust towards the US than I have towards Iran. Mostly because Iran has very limited power to affect me negatively.
Oh, wait…
Serious answer: there's a big plan to network everything for metrology purposes. At the very least feeding real time frequency, voltage and phase information from every point of interest on the grid into a big dashboard.
All sources have their biases. I could come up with several examples of the BBC and Guardian reporting very dubiously, for example (recently the BBC spliced together clips of the US President to make it seem he said something completely fictitious). Few sources are a paragon of truth.
How about we just think critically, and think -independently- about the media we consume. Ignore the authoritarian blow-hards who think their choice of media is the only valid choice for the rest of us.
Stuxnet.
I imagine the former, but it will be used for the latter.
This just seems like a wasted attack, alerting us to the vulnerability.
Nothing will change the fact that this war has been a complete strategic defeat for the US and its allies. This is the beginning of the end of dismantling the world order created by the US for the benefit of the US after 1945. That's how this will be written about in history books.
And sure oil prices have gone up, but not doomsday scenario prices.
A bit of a pyrrhic victory if you insist on defining that as a victory.
Sometimes everyone's a loser.
I would find it more trustworthy a report from my toilet hours after I ate alphabet soup.
You, of course, then also need to ensure redundancy on this "UK Power Plant Internet v2", as you don't want to have a single point of failure such that a single router or cable somewhere being interrupted would create a network partition.
And again, there is simply no one even considering this. All of the work going into smart grid coordination (strictly necessary for incorporating a large amount of renewable power generation in the grid) is 100% designed to work on top of the public Internet.
UK's involvement in the 2026 Iran War:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_involvement_in_...
United Kingdom and the Gaza "war":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_and_the_Gaza_wa...
I’ll agree with gp, in any case seems unwise to give the UK cause to further involve themselves.