{"id":63176,"date":"2017-05-18T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63176"},"modified":"2017-05-17T23:40:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T04:40:49","slug":"alas-babylon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63176","title":{"rendered":"Alas, Babylon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s a reason the United States considers cyber warfare to be a weapon of mass destruction, same as nuclear weapons: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/2017\/05\/15\/nhs-cyber-attack-latest-authorities-warn-day-chaos-ransomware\/\">because of the massive damage it can cause to modern civilization.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mitch wrote recently about a grid-down scenario from EMP attack.\u00a0 How about grid-down event caused by ramsomware?\u00a0 How secure are the computers that serve the national electrical grid?<\/p>\n<p>If the Twin Cities were without power to scan groceries, to accept debit cards, to pump gas, to run air conditioners and elevators, to listen to the news or surf the web or communicate on cell phones . . . how long would it be before hooligans started breaking windows and homeowners started loading shotguns to protect their families?<\/p>\n<p>You do have a shotgun, don\u2019t you? \u00a0And several weeks of food and water? \u00a0A medical kit.\u00a0 Propane or charcoal for the grill.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My plan is to become a warlord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: There\u2019s a reason the United States considers cyber warfare to be a weapon of mass destruction, same as nuclear weapons: because of the massive damage it can cause to modern civilization. Mitch wrote recently about a grid-down scenario from EMP attack.\u00a0 How about grid-down event caused by ramsomware?\u00a0 How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63177,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63176\/revisions\/63177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}