Archive for January 2016

Winter in Finland

Winter is really in Finland. It is -8 degrees celsius in Helsinki and snowing a lot (10 cm of snow in the morning). And life pretty much goes normally – people go to work, schools are open and people drive their cars at almost normal speed on the roads and highways, flights run normally, etc.

Cyber Attack Caused Massive Power Outage

Around two years ago I wrote at Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System posting that Electrical grid is said to be vulnerable to terrorist attack. I can agree that electrical power distribution network would be quite vulnerable if someone tries to sabotage it and knows what to do. I know this because I design