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Electric Grid Hacking More Perilous Than Election Hacking

By Betsy McCaughey
Wednesday, August 08 2018

Kremlin-connected cyber criminals are capable of turning off our electric power from afar, while power plant employees watch helplessly. In the last two weeks, the federal Department of Homeland Security held four briefings warning that Russian hackers are already practicing how to throw the switch and cause a blackout in the U.S. We'd have no lights, no gas at the pump, no life support in hospitals, no mass transit, no food supply. Yet nearly all Washington pols are ignoring the danger. To the public, "power" means electricity. But to self-absorbed politicians, "power" means…

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