After the pipeline got shot down, it got me thinking about our electrical grid. If they managed to sit it down for just a few weeks, the damage and loss of life would be catastrophic. Why on earth are these systems even accessable to anyone outside this country?
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The Internet is ubiquitous. It is cheap and accessible.
As a modern electrical grid operator, you want to balance the distribution as best possible (that’s the job of the grid). That requires detailed real-time data on energy production and consumption.
The biggest consumers are in the industries. They too don’t want to spend too much money if they don’t have to.
So, to integrate them into your data systems, you would use the cheapest data transfer available to both. And thus you just use the Internet.
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