MN Public Utilities Commission talking about Hackers, Homeland Security, SCADAfail
Channel: HongPong
Date: 2013-01-16

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission is way more interested in talking about Homeland Security and hackers than the problems of our fossil-fuel oriented civilization. They did not discuss the proposed Enbridge tar sands line which will relate to future climate problems - 
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One group working on this - North Star Energy Coalition - https://www.facebook.com/northstarenergycoalition
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Additionally we heard, not confirmed in detail yet, that someone - probably a legislator - told/asked someone else to quit videotaping part of this supposedly open Capitol hearing. Hopefully will have more info later on this.

Also, look up "SCADA hacking" for more info on the kind of flaky, unaudited software that is running on these utility systems. Legislators talking about "terrorism" policy money pits instead of practical measures like unit testing & cleaning up bad software.

Another thing to check out re PUC & utility security is the Smart Meter situation, since even a few days of Smart Meter data is enough to pin down daily patterns, a very comprehensive surveillance angle & highly underappreciated. The risk as always is not just from external forces, disgruntled employees, opportunists, etc. but the people who are "supposed" to have the data.