Obsessed with power
Some politicians are becomming obsessed with power.
Electrical power that is. And in particular the fragility of much of the US electricity distribution infrastructure.
Take out the Internet for a week and there would be complaints. Take out electricity for a week and the police will start worrying about the possibility of riots. And it gos without saying that without electricity there is no Internet. Even if the major Internet hubs have backup power, the local loop distribution does not. Cable companies have never needed to worry about being able to deliver their service when the power is out.
The reverse is not necessarily true. A failure of the Internet would not necessarily result in power outages. But a failure of Internet security might. The control systems of many power stations are hooked up to the Internet. And even when the systems are suposedly airgaped, penteration testing has tended to result in the discovery that they are not.
