The U.S. fears for its grid; China's communist government worries about its grip.
That is the strategic insight gleaned from the fracas over Chinese engineering student Wang Jianwei's article titled "Cascade-Based Attack Vulnerability on the U.S. Power Grid."
Wang's study appeared last year in the Safety Science journal and has been online since spring 2009. Its abstract's first sentence reads: "The vulnerability of real-life networks subject to intentional attacks has been one of the outstanding challenges in the study of the network safety."
Wang, a student at China's elite Dalian University of Technology, addressed known power-grid weaknesses...











Cyber-Vulnerabilities: American Grid, Chinese Grip
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