Chinese work out how to black out Silicon Valley
Analysts at the Chinese Dalian University of Technology claim to have worked out how to cause major power cuts in the US west coast
Researchers have worked out how attackers could cause a cascade of network failures in the U.S.'s west-coast electricity grid -- cutting power to economic powerhouses Silicon Valley and Hollywood
Network analyst Jian-Wei Wang specializes in predicting how rumors and epidemics percolate through populations, or how traffic jams spread through city streets. His latest findings, though are likely to spark worries in the United States: he has worked out how attackers could cause a cascade of network failures in the U.S.'s west-coast electricity grid -- cutting power to economic powerhouses Silicon Valley and Hollywood.
Paul Marks writes that Wang and colleagues at Dalian University of Technology in the Chinese province of Liaoning modeled the U.S.'s west-coast grid using publicly available data on how it, and its subnetworks, are connected.
