"Shortly after the beginning of the second half of the Super Bowl in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, a piece of equipment that is designed to monitor electrical load sensed an abnormality in the system. Once the issue was detected, the sensing equipment operated as designed and opened a breaker, causing power to be partially cut to the Superdome in order to isolate the issue."
http://www.nola.com/superbowl/index.ssf/2013/02/entergy_stadium_officials_expl.html /Asher On 4/02/13 4:29 PM, Greg Norcie wrote: > It's admittedly a wild theory, but it was the first thing that came to > mind. After the game I googled, and came across this gem: > > "Michael Burns, a spokesman for Entergy Services, the local utility, > said that his company’s distribution and transmission feeders that serve > the Superdome were never interrupted. Power did not go out elsewhere in > the city. " > > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/sports/football/power-outage-in-superdome-delays-super-bowl.html > > As many on this list may know, SCADA vulnerabilities are rampant in the > US power grid. And Stuxnet was targeted at SCADA systems overseas. > > Now, there's admittedly no evidence, so this is just idle speculation on > my part, but I'd be surprised if I was the only one musing along these > lines, and thought it might be interesting to start a thread about the > possibility. > -- > Greg Norcie ([email protected]) > GPG key: 0x1B873635 > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
