Remember - there are 3 grids - East, West, and ERCOT (Texas). Texas isn't connected to the other 2 so not everything will go down at once... Unless there is an EMP. The grid is actually harder to take down than substations and power plants.
Eventually some attacker will get lucky. Honestly I figure it will be the Chinese using backdoors from the supply chain. All kinds of things are built into PCs and networking equipment by China and the US both. Until then I don't see anything happening.
Also if there were a severe threat we wouldn't hear about it from some youtube guy. It would come from the govt or a whistleblower (if the govt is hiding it).
Remember - there are 3 grids - East, West, and ERCOT (Texas). Texas isn't connected to the other 2 so not everything will go down at once... Unless there is an EMP. The grid is actually harder to take down than substations and power plants.
Eventually some attacker will get lucky. Honestly I figure it will be the Chinese using backdoors from the supply chain. All kinds of things are built into PCs and networking equipment by China and the US both. Until then I don't see anything happening.
Also if there were a severe threat we wouldn't hear about it from some youtube guy. It would come from the govt or a whistleblower (if the govt is hiding it).