trevor999’s Comments

• Nov 20th, 2015 @ 7:00am

  Grid

  on Ted Koppel Writes Entire Book About How Hackers Will Take Down Our Electric Grid... And Never Spoke To Any Experts
  I have an old copy (October 1989) of Omni magazine (anyone remember that?) that goes into detail of a hypothetical terrorist attack on infrastructure in the US. This was long before cyber attacks etc. One thing that was mentioned was a PHYSICAL attack on the electrical and LNG grid by destroying (with not much more than high powered rifles and grenade launchers) a number of EHV transformers and LNG compressors. There are relatively few of these transformers and compressors, they're expensive and usually built as needed and not kept in stock, and typically have a 6 - 18 month lead time. In the scenario, Washington DC, New York/Newark, Boston, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Oakland/San Francisco were blacked out for 6 months. The LNG compressors were much the same, taking up to a year for replacement.
  
  Imagine 8 of the largest metropolitan areas blacked out for at least 6 months and the LNG grid for the north east crippled for a year or more.
• Sep 18th, 2015 @ 4:15am

  Re:

  on Here's The Ridiculous Texas Law That Allows Law Enforcement To Pretend A Digital Clock Is A Hoax Bomb
  Everyone who owns a digital wrist watch with an alarm...
• Sep 18th, 2015 @ 3:49am

  (untitled comment)

  on New Hampshire Library Rejects DHS Fearmongering, Turns Tor Back On
  Based on DHS's logic, all books on the following subjects should be banned (burned?)
  Engineering
  Anatomy and Physiology
  Chemistry
  Firearms
  Religion (except of course Christianity)
  Electronics
  Military subjects
  The Law and Civil Rights
  
  since these subjects, and others, could be used by criminals and terrorists to their advantage.