Comments on: Senators aim to protect electric grid from hackers

Politicians respond to reports of cyberattacks by suggesting new plans to protect an increasingly networked electric grid.

[Maccess]

"Federal regulators have complained they do not have enough authority over the electric grid networks,..."

Exactly how will giving Federal Regulators more authority over the grid discourage foreign hackers from targetting th grid?

"Senators aim to protect electric grid from hackers..."

Exactly how will Senators protect the grid from hackers? By taking computer classes?

[Seaspray0]

I feel safe now. The senators will protect us. LOL.

[nicmart]

How will the electric grid be protected from senators?

[declan00]

Clearly you fail to understand the depth of knowledge about technology, and deep appreciation for the tradeoffs inherent in the computer security field, that our esteemed elected representatives no doubt possess.

[Get_Bent]

Following in the footsteps of ex-Senator Ted "the Internet is a bunch of tubes" Stevens....

[thirdpipe]

I recommend we make a law to protect the power grid from clueless Senators.

[icfdude]

I feel safer already. I wonder how much this will cost.

[KimTaylor aka Finiky]

This is an attempt to allow further intrusion into our personal lives. We already know the FBI abused it's privilege and spied on Americans, for no reason. This will allow the US Government to extend the Big Brother reach. This is bad bad legislation and all in the name of national security.

[Frewgle]

Welcome to Obamaland. Wait until Obama and Congress touch healthcare. Soon he will choose your doctor and hospital for you, and what procedures can be done for you. If they cost too much, well that wouldn't be fair to the other broke taxpayers....

[jpbgmail]

Get a clue, man.

How does this have anything to do with 'intrusion into your personal lives'. Do you have any idea about what protecting the 'grid' means? If you know anything about the electric generation/transmission/distribution system, you should know that it's based on ages old antique technology when security was an after-thought. With the movement toward modernizing & IP-enabling the grid, it's imperative that cybersecurity be studied, analyzed and implemented.

This has *nothing* to do with US government spying or bullcrap like that ...

[jpbgmail]

Hey Frewgle, dude .. remove those glasses man, they're just making you blind.

This has *nothing* to do with Obamaland or his tax policies or anything. The US electric grid is stuck in the 70s outdated technology. A 'smart' grid might enable new things like renewables, etc, but grid modernization itself is something that's desperately needed here.

[Eddie-c]

How about simply hiring I.T. staff that know what the hell they are doing and kick the current idiots there out??

[willdryden]

There is an easy way to secure it. Hardware IP addresses on a closed hard-wired network. Baring that, there is no security regardless of who is involved.

[jinnlost5]

Safety is the first priority. I hope they learn from the past mistakes.

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