Plot to shut down Baltimore electric grid stopped

As scary as this is, I’m not terribly surprised. I work for an electric utility company and I’ve complained for years that our physical security is utter trash. We’re so concerned about cyber-security that physical security has been largely neglected. You can see that in the nearly dozen attacks on substations across the country in the closing months of last year.
 
As scary as this is, I’m not terribly surprised. I work for an electric utility company and I’ve complained for years that our physical security is utter trash. We’re so concerned about cyber-security that physical security has been largely neglected. You can see that in the nearly dozen attacks on substations across the country in the closing months of last year.
Each substation should have video cameras and sensors that detect intruders.
 
Hmmmm that would be the violent racist left wouldnt it? Real Americans don't like these stupid electric vehicles.
You are confused a lot you know that??

Real people are afraid of technology. Real people don't shout "Jews Will Not Replace Us". Real People do not engage in Insurrection against the United States of America, in other NOT people like you.
 
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Each substation should have video cameras and sensors that detect intruders
They all have cameras but most are outdoor metal structures surrounded by six foot chain link fences. They’re not terribly secure. Add to that the NIMBY society which has assured that many subs are in out of the way places where police response may be multiple minutes, when sabotage can be committed in seconds if the attackers know what they’re doing.

In the long-lost past many subs were manned by company personnel but that’s largely a thing of the past.
 
They all have cameras but most are outdoor metal structures surrounded by six foot chain link fences. They’re not terribly secure. Add to that the NIMBY society which has assured that many subs are in out of the way places where police response may be multiple minutes, when sabotage can be committed in seconds if the attackers know what they’re doing.

In the long-lost past many subs were manned by company personnel but that’s largely a thing of the past.
This crime should be elevated to a Class A Felony. Put these nuts away for good.
 
A Florida man and a Maryland woman have been arrested on federal charges of plotting to attack multiple energy substation with the goal of destroying Baltimore, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.

The suspects, Sarah Clendaniel of Catonsville, Maryland, and Brandon Russell of Orlando, Florida, were allegedly fueled by a racist extremist ideology as they "conspired to inflict maximum harm" on the power grid with the aim to "completely destroy" Baltimore, U.S. Attorney Erek Barron and a top FBI official said at a Monday morning press conference.

Russell is quoted in court documents saying that attacking power transformers is "the greatest thing somebody can do." He is accused of providing instructions and location information for the substations he and Clendaniel allegedly sought to target as part of their plot, federal prosecutors said.

Clendaniel allegedly told an FBI confidential source she was "determined" to carry out the attacks aimed at Baltimore's infrastructure, saying, "It would lay this city to waste."

"Their actions threatened the electricity and heat of our homes, hospitals and businesses," said Thomas Sobocinski, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Baltimore field office. "The FBI believes this was a real threat."

Haven't we been told that there are no more white supremacist, Klan left in the country anymore and then here we go.
 
A Florida man and a Maryland woman have been arrested on federal charges of plotting to attack multiple energy substation with the goal of destroying Baltimore, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.

The suspects, Sarah Clendaniel of Catonsville, Maryland, and Brandon Russell of Orlando, Florida, were allegedly fueled by a racist extremist ideology as they "conspired to inflict maximum harm" on the power grid with the aim to "completely destroy" Baltimore, U.S. Attorney Erek Barron and a top FBI official said at a Monday morning press conference.

Russell is quoted in court documents saying that attacking power transformers is "the greatest thing somebody can do." He is accused of providing instructions and location information for the substations he and Clendaniel allegedly sought to target as part of their plot, federal prosecutors said.

Clendaniel allegedly told an FBI confidential source she was "determined" to carry out the attacks aimed at Baltimore's infrastructure, saying, "It would lay this city to waste."

"Their actions threatened the electricity and heat of our homes, hospitals and businesses," said Thomas Sobocinski, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Baltimore field office. "The FBI believes this was a real threat."

Haven't we been told that there are no more white supremacist, Klan left in the country anymore and then here we go.
More red meat for the self hating morons that call themselves Americans. The MSM is going to beat this to death.
 
A Florida man and a Maryland woman have been arrested on federal charges of plotting to attack multiple energy substation with the goal of destroying Baltimore, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.

The suspects, Sarah Clendaniel of Catonsville, Maryland, and Brandon Russell of Orlando, Florida, were allegedly fueled by a racist extremist ideology as they "conspired to inflict maximum harm" on the power grid with the aim to "completely destroy" Baltimore, U.S. Attorney Erek Barron and a top FBI official said at a Monday morning press conference.

Russell is quoted in court documents saying that attacking power transformers is "the greatest thing somebody can do." He is accused of providing instructions and location information for the substations he and Clendaniel allegedly sought to target as part of their plot, federal prosecutors said.

Clendaniel allegedly told an FBI confidential source she was "determined" to carry out the attacks aimed at Baltimore's infrastructure, saying, "It would lay this city to waste."

"Their actions threatened the electricity and heat of our homes, hospitals and businesses," said Thomas Sobocinski, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Baltimore field office. "The FBI believes this was a real threat."

Haven't we been told that there are no more white supremacist, Klan left in the country anymore and then here we go.
Sounds like total bullshit to me.
 

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