Maybe Federal LEs but it probably won't hurt State/Local much. The feds will want to be searching all their secret crap that the non-feds don't have access to.
Honestly I don't think attackers would waste their time on LEOs. I would hit critical infrastructure like power/water/transportation. Just turning off all traffic lights will be bad enough to block things up when speeding emergency vehicles crash in intersections.
Power sub-stations and water treatment plants are virtually un-guarded throughout the country. You don't have to knock out power plants to knock out power. Heritage foundation states that there are ~55,000 electric power sub-stations. Another source stated that there are 153,000 drinking water systems. Of course, many of those 153,000 are probably rural systems serving a small population. From a report to the President in December 2016:
Of these 150,000 systems, 50,000 are community watersystems that supply water to the same population year‐round; these serve over 300 million Americans. The community water systems that rely on surface water as their source serve about 200 million people, those that rely on ground water about 100 million. Just 3 percent of the community water systems—those that serve over 10,000 people each—provide the drinking water for 79 percent of the U.S.population.
This means that ~1500 water treatment systems supply water to 79% of the U.S. population, and means that it wouldn't take many people to knock out the water supply of ~276 million people!
I'll let someone else do the analyis of how many substations would need to be taken out to cut power to X percent of the population.
Strange. Looking at this truth on my phone, the word "attack" is spelled normally.
On browser, it looks like "att ack" with a little obj (object) symbol in the gap.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111205721626200196
The string is
attack
Gonna sticky this for research purposes, will unsticky if we identify a UX bug.
Maybe Federal LEs but it probably won't hurt State/Local much. The feds will want to be searching all their secret crap that the non-feds don't have access to.
Honestly I don't think attackers would waste their time on LEOs. I would hit critical infrastructure like power/water/transportation. Just turning off all traffic lights will be bad enough to block things up when speeding emergency vehicles crash in intersections.
Power sub-stations and water treatment plants are virtually un-guarded throughout the country. You don't have to knock out power plants to knock out power. Heritage foundation states that there are ~55,000 electric power sub-stations. Another source stated that there are 153,000 drinking water systems. Of course, many of those 153,000 are probably rural systems serving a small population. From a report to the President in December 2016:
Of these 150,000 systems, 50,000 are community watersystems that supply water to the same population year‐round; these serve over 300 million Americans. The community water systems that rely on surface water as their source serve about 200 million people, those that rely on ground water about 100 million. Just 3 percent of the community water systems—those that serve over 10,000 people each—provide the drinking water for 79 percent of the U.S.population.
This means that ~1500 water treatment systems supply water to 79% of the U.S. population, and means that it wouldn't take many people to knock out the water supply of ~276 million people!
I'll let someone else do the analyis of how many substations would need to be taken out to cut power to X percent of the population.