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J.T
06-21-2011, 07:56 PM
Computers now control even the largest pieces of industrial machinery, making critical infrastructure vulnerable to electronic attack. As David Nicol, director of the Information Trust Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, describes in "Hacking the Lights Out", determined hackers could bring down a significant portion of the U.S. electrical grid. Yet the threat is not just theoretical. Over the past decade electronic intrusions have disrupted operations at power plants, sewage treatment centers and nuclear facilities. Here are some of the more notable break-ins.http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=lights-out-when-hackers-knocked-out-lights

gabosaurus
06-21-2011, 10:45 PM
Are you Red States Rule's girlfriend?

Gunny
06-22-2011, 09:49 AM
Are you Red States Rule's girlfriend?

J's about as likely to be a guy's girlfriend as you are.

gabosaurus
06-22-2011, 12:27 PM
J's about as likely to be a guy's girlfriend as you are.

I haven't been a girlfriend since I got married.
But JT is starting to sound more like RSR every day.