[SystemSafety] Data across the UK National Grid

[Peter Bernard Ladkin]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/11/energy-first-as-uk-successfully-transmits-data-via-national-electricity-grid

The British company Reactive Technologies has successfully demonstrated the superimposition of data
on electricy supply through the UK National Grid.

The article lauds the possibility of sending data on top of electricity supply in the form of
commands to "smart devices" to modulate energy use when the grid needs it.

This also brings with it the possibility of sending exactly the opposite command to those devices to
exacerbate any problems the grid may already be having.

Or of foreign states turning all the devices in some security expert's home up to max in the middle
of the night when he's not there, to, ahem, "test the condition" of hisher protection systems. For I
don't suppose it is going to be easy to determine the origin of data injection.

PBL

Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Bielefeld, Germany
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