One of the United States’ significant vulnerabilities is our power grid. It’s huge and complex, it’s vulnerable to attack in any number of ways, from local attacks such as shooting up a couple of transformers to a grid-wide EMP attack. A large-scale grid failure has the potential to send much of the United States back to the mid-19th century, and we should note that there is no way we could support our current population with mid-19th century technology and distributions systems, meaning that, in the event of such a grid-wide failure, a lot of people would die of disease, starvation, figthing over supplies – you name it.
So it’s a matter of some concern when we find unexpected communications devices hidden inside Chinese-made power inverters that form a part of this grid.
U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play…
