Power to the people

17.04.2009

Reader H. F. brings up an excellent point about using cyberspies to infiltrate the grid:

If it were so easy to hack the power grid than why does the U.S. always bomb the electric infrastructure when we attack a country like Iraq, and turn around and use tax payer money to rebuild it again? Wouldn't it be a lot more effective and less expensive to use our superior U.S. technical knowledge to hack their grid, turn the power off, and back on when needed?