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Re: east coast powergrid / SCADA [OT?]
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 19:50:23 -0400
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 18:11:29 EDT, Joshua Thomas <JThomas () poweronemedia com> said:
What I have more trouble believing is that a single workstation/controlstation would allow a large enough change to a power plant to cause an effect like this. In an ideal world, doing something like shuting down the whole power station would be like firing a nuke: You need two people with keys, they're too far apart for one person to do it by themself, etc.
Hmm... 765kv line, carrying 8,000 amps. Seriously. There's that kind of power there. Something blows out, you *dont* have time to do this. Things are going to be catching fire and vaporizing long before the two of you get your keys in place, especially if one of the two is in the john....
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