Aus der Zeitschrift 'Popular Mechanics:
Blackout: The Conspiracy Theory
There are two explanations for the massive Aug. 14, 2003 power
failure. The official version, which the Department of Energy was
scheduled to release around mid-October 2003, was expected to retell
the story that we had already been told. A critical interconnection
point in the FirstEnergy electric grid in Ohio failed. What should
have been an easily contained local power failure cascaded east,
causing more than $1 billion in damage in eight states and Ontario.
The second version is that terrorists successfully staged a digital
Pearl Harbor.
...
The nation's power system has thousands of not-so-secret trapdoors
called supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) devices.
"SCADA systems allow utility companies to monitor and direct
equipment at unmanned facilities from a central location," Ashley
explains.
...
"Information about SCADA devices and hacking them was found on Al
Qaeda computers seized in raids in Afghanistan," says Ashley. "Al
Qaeda prisoners have informed interrogators about their intent to use
these methods to attack the U.S." This is hardly surprising since all
of the "Axis of Evil" countries--Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea
and Syria--have both access to SCADA devices and an in-depth
understanding of the technology.
...
http://tinyurl.com/vo3c
Blackout: The Conspiracy Theory
There are two explanations for the massive Aug. 14, 2003 power
failure. The official version, which the Department of Energy was
scheduled to release around mid-October 2003, was expected to retell
the story that we had already been told. A critical interconnection
point in the FirstEnergy electric grid in Ohio failed. What should
have been an easily contained local power failure cascaded east,
causing more than $1 billion in damage in eight states and Ontario.
The second version is that terrorists successfully staged a digital
Pearl Harbor.
...
The nation's power system has thousands of not-so-secret trapdoors
called supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) devices.
"SCADA systems allow utility companies to monitor and direct
equipment at unmanned facilities from a central location," Ashley
explains.
...
"Information about SCADA devices and hacking them was found on Al
Qaeda computers seized in raids in Afghanistan," says Ashley. "Al
Qaeda prisoners have informed interrogators about their intent to use
these methods to attack the U.S." This is hardly surprising since all
of the "Axis of Evil" countries--Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea
and Syria--have both access to SCADA devices and an in-depth
understanding of the technology.
...
http://tinyurl.com/vo3c