Iran's power grid at risk

Posted By Evgeny Morozov Thursday, July 9, 2009 - 12:39 PM Share

Well, at least, it's not just American infrastructure that is at risk: the Iranian power grid is also at risk of cyber-attacks! From today's NYT:

A flier circulating in Tehran, for example, asked people to turn on all their electrical appliances at the same time to crash the electric grid as a sign of defiance."

I say the power strikes are the new hunger strikes. 

 
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Evgeny Morozov, originally from Belarus, is a visiting scholar at Stanford and a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation.

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