#Oregon - Gear Up - Civil War is on - thanks to Bundy BLM militia

[Quixote1818]

Not sure who Dave Acton is because his videos seem to be a mixed bag but he sure nails the militia idiots here:

[navarth]

1. I like it! Dave Acton huh

never heard of him, but I like what he did there. Give us more, Dave! (And thanks, Quixote1818....Dumas would be proud!)

[Duckfan]

2. There's only one Civil War in Oregon that I know of.

[WheelWalker]

3. ^^^ THIS...

Friends don't let friends go to OSU. It's Ducks for a Beaver-free America !!

[crim son]

5. Hah! Totally agree!!! n/t

[maggies farm]

4. Bundy posse terrorism against the power grid

Rogue cowboys seen in video breaking and entering SCADA devices. Most reasonable Americans agree that those security cameras are desired unless your view is 'Merica. The cameras do not only provide security to real attack, but provides a watchful glaze upon deterioration and break down of the physical infrastructure.

Protecting the Electric Grid from Terrorism -- Nobody is in Charge

The problem is this: we have a highly complicated electricity grid with approximately 3,500 utilities, thousands of power plants, 200,000 miles of lines, and tens of thousands of transformers. It is exposed to the weather, under constant stress, and deteriorates a little bit every day.

Experts warn of escalating grid security issues after PG&E break-in
Dive Brief:

•Federal law enforcement agents are investingating a break in at a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. substation in March, but the event has raised broader concerns about grid security issues and the industry's ability to guard its infrastructure.
•Experts told SNL the power industry needs to better protect its systems, and at this point the country is essentially "waiting" for a serious breach to occur.
•The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into the break in at PG&E's Westpark substation, where an intruder disabled monitoring and control technology before escaping.

Dive Insight:

Utility substations have been targeted by physical attacks before, often including the theft of equipment or valuable metals. Another PG&E's substation was targeted in a notorious in a sniper attack in 2013 as well, when 17 transformers were disabled. And cyber attacks are rising through the ranks of utility concerns, according to a survey earlier this year Black & Veatch. The firm's poll of the electric industry's strategic direction showed internet and data concerns now rank fourth in company's concerns, up from sixth the previous year.

But the attack two months ago on PG&E's Westpark substation represents a new kind of threat, security experts told SNL, combining physical vulnerabilities with network-enabled threats. The attackers, the news outlet reported, entered the substation control room and disabled supervisory control and data acquisition before damaging communications and other equipment.

"The fact that [someone] targeted the SCADA and control system equipment is kind of a big deal," Mark Weatherford, principal at the Chertoff Group, told SNL. It leaves open the possibility that intruders could perpetrate hacking crimes not through the internet, but through physical vulnerabilities at power facilities themselves.

Federal regulators are working on the issue; in 2014 FERC adopted new cybersecurity standards regarding critical infrastructure and reliability standards for guarding against physical threats.

PG&E to spend $100M to harden substations against attacks

Dive Brief:

•PG&E will spend $100 million over the next three years on substation security upgrades that include work on the Metcalf station where 17 transformers were taken out during an armed attack in April 2013, seriously threatening the power supply to much of Silicon Valley.
•Permitting and preliminary security improvements have begun at the Metcalf facility and will follow at other unspecified substations, according to PG&E, and may include opaque fences to obscure operations, improved lighting, better security cameras, better communication with local law enforcement, and altered landscaping, among other measures.
•The California PUC and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission are working on security improvements for the electricity power grid and the California Senate is considering SB 699, which would require the PUC to establish security standards for the state’s electricity delivery system.

Dive Insight:

At 1:00 am on April 16, 2013, gunmen cut the Metcalf substation’s telephone cables, knocked out the transformers during 19 minutes of gunfire, and then disappeared by 1:50 am, leaving a facility that was not fully operational again for 27 days.

Experts do not foresee extremely violent terrorist attacks, like car bombs, on the U.S. electricity grid but it is so vulnerable that such violence wouldn’t really be necessary to compromise the power delivery system. Former FERC Chair Jon Wellinghoff recently told this reporter it would be hard to intentionally design a system as vulnerable as this nation’s grid.

Because PG&E has been unforthcoming with details about the extent and nature of the security upgrades beyond saying that some hardening at some substations has been completed, watchdog groups like The Utility Reform Network (TURN) are monitoring the process.

Regulators, grid operators, and utilities are also working on ways to harden the power delivery system against cyberattacks and natural disasters.