Re: The Smart Grid and Cybersecurity

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Jerry Glomph Black <glomph () glomph com>
Date: April 12, 2009 4:41:34 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Re: The Smart Grid and Cybersecurity

Come on, guys:  this whole imperative we are commenting upon is just  
another 'emergency' posited by vested interests.   As in the emergency  
need to attack Iraq, or the emergency need for hundreds of billions of  
unaudited dollars to reward fraud.

Of course there are numerous optimisations that can be applied in  
efficiency, redundancy, security, etc., of the power generation &  
distribution systems.  We've seen many good, simple ideas just on the  
IP list in the past few days.  But hose are all too cheap.

It's clear that this thing is being scripted such that The Usual  
Suspects can feed at the public trough, generating crappy complex  
exorbitant lock-in solutions which will solve nothing except their  
need for bigger houses, cars, etc.

Change that I [used to] believe in.



On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:23 PM, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:


Begin forwarded message:

From: Karl Auerbach <karl () cavebear com>
Date: April 12, 2009 2:54:09 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net, Peter Swire <peter () peterswire net>

Subject: Re: [IP] Re:    The Smart Grid and Cybersecurity


This "smart grid" thing confuses me.  It seems like it looks at our  
power systems mainly from the distribution point of view and not a  
synoptic generation-distribution-consumption view.

It strikes me that "smart" should mean better feedback loops......





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