Researchers say new attack could take down the European power grid
Power grid in Central Europe uses unencrypted radio signals to add and shed loads.
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Unencrypted radio on a power grid??? What in the flip?! What wanker kept this going into the 2000s??
I imagine the German response here is to be annoyed that they've worked very hard to be able to do this without telefax, indeed without paper at all, and it's still not considered good enough by the peanut gallery.
The utility company motto. If it isn't broken, don't fix it.
I don't disagree. But it's broken.
Is it though? If messages are working over the link that would be their definition of working.
The messages might be working right now, but the security (and, therefore, the stability and longevity) is broken.