http://truthhugger.com/2009/04/12/off-the-grid-where-cyber-terrorists-cant-go-yet/ Question with boldness, education, philosophy, humanity, culture, religion, social science Sun, 27 May 2012 03:12:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://truthhugger.com/2009/04/12/off-the-grid-where-cyber-terrorists-cant-go-yet/#comment-1623 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:42:22 +0000 http://truthhugger.com/?p=4019#comment-1623 Agreed T1, personally, I want my roof covered with solar panels, a personal wind machine in the back yard. I can’t afford that, nor can the majority of the population. I am sad that all this solar and wind power technology is being GIVEN AWAY to poor rural countries by huge companies. The most available and affordable access is overseas.
Sorry for the rant. Being independent from common grid technology appears to be one solution to common breakdown. But, somewhere those independent networks will have to communicate. That’s where I see vulnerability. Every network handshake will exchange germs or virus, but limiting those handshakes will be smarter than what we have today. There are skilled engineers who participate in creating our networks, then return to their countries where they sell it to the highest, or scariest, bidder.
I still want my electric car.
America keeps promising a usable electric car next year, then, next year … then they price it out of our pockets. America is busy developing this and that according to corporate dictates. But, GM had a viable Electric Car, then let it go when bullied by petro gangsters. Petro Gangsters will be the first to admit that family automobile gasoline is not their real money maker. It is industry. However, the threat that the same electric technology could compete against their industrial monopoly has to be eliminated ASAP.
So, I may be waiting for a long time to own an electric car that I can afford.

]]> http://truthhugger.com/2009/04/12/off-the-grid-where-cyber-terrorists-cant-go-yet/#comment-1622 Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:46:14 +0000 http://truthhugger.com/?p=4019#comment-1622 Allowing command control to critical infrastructure over the Internet is more naive than using POP email without virus protection. Encrypted private networks with NO public access should be used for the control systems. Separate Internet access can be used for customer service and user accounts. That would limit intrusion damage to the point where hostile governments would have no interest.

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