Silicon Valley power network attack

[AdamG]

This is scary.

The Wall Street Journal's Rebecca Smith reports that a former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chairman is acknowledging for the first time that a group of snipers shot up a Silicon Valley substation for 19 minutes last year, knocking out 17 transformers before slipping away into the night.

The attack was "the most significant incident of domestic terrorism involving the grid that has ever occurred" in the U.S., Jon Wellinghoff, who was chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at the time, told Smith.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/silic...#ixzz2sTudhvWp

[carl]

Adam G:

Somebody is sending the Americans a message.

Judging from the description available at NPR, it is probably a good thing the deputies got there late. If they had showed up earlier they may have run into the security element and that would not have been good.

[carl]

If you mapquest the area of Metcalf Rd and Monterrey Highway southeast of San Jose, you will see that the substation would only be approached by local law enforcement via one road. The substation is also right next to an Interstate Highway and there is an interchange what looks like less than a mile away. Plus there looks to be a hiking trail going right next to the substation.

That all seems pertinent to me.