[SystemSafety] Data across the UK National Grid

Matthew Squair mattsquair at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 10:41:34 CEST 2016


Suggest wait till everyone relies on it as a communications network and then execute a DoS attack, for extra points make it an intermittent and random attack pattern. 

Small historical note, I used to work for the Macquarie county council and back in the day (80s) we used to send signals down the line to turn domestic water heaters on and off. Of course when we took a lightning strike on the lines interesting things used to happen. 

Matthew Squair

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> On 11 Oct. 2016, at 6:16 pm, Peter Bernard Ladkin <ladkin at causalis.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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