China Is Studying How to Hack and Crash Our Power Grids

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China Is Studying How to Hack and Crash Our Power Grids​

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China Is Studying How to Hack and Crash Our Power Grids

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Head of Cybersecurity Research at CTU UCEEB​

Over the past several weeks, I’ve been conducting a large-scale bibliometric study on publicly available Chinese academic literature related to hacking and crashing Western power grids. In this article, I’m sharing the main findings of that study.
EDIT (20.6.2025, 8:54 CET): All of the Chinese academic articles I examined are scientific, peer-reviewed articles published in impact-factor journals (mostly Western publishers), which go through independent review by at least three independent reviewers before being published. In this case, it is not possible for something to be presented by Chinese merely to incite fear or to confuse us— impacted technical scientific literature simply does not work that way.
What I found is a vast body of technically advanced work. Across dozens of publications, Chinese researchers study how failures propagate through the Western power grids, how critical nodes or links can be identified and targeted, and how to optimize the effectiveness of these attacks. In many cases, simulations are conducted specifically to identify the minimal effort or cost required to trigger a large-scale outage or systemic collapse. Many papers simulate targeted or hybrid attacks, such as node removal, edge overload, or false data injections. Several studies explicitly focus on identifying the most effective attack vectors under constraints such as limited resources, partial system knowledge, or time sensitivity. Some publications models control algorithms that minimize the number of manipulated nodes needed to induce power grid-wide failure.
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China Is Studying How to Hack and Crash Our Power Grids

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TEOTWAWKI inc. said:
This just means they have so much shit embedded in our infrastructure that they don't know what to exploit first.

I have 4 vehicles, and I'm studying how to get to work tomorrow.
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Agreed. They can crash our grid easily. I know 15 year olds that could probably do it.
 
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TEOTWAWKI inc. said:
This just means they have so much shit embedded in our infrastructure that they don't know what to exploit first.

I have 4 vehicles, and I'm studying how to get to work tomorrow.
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My "old" truck is a '95 and it's newer than what I consider highly resistant to conditions effecting electronics and computers...still, I'd venture it'll do much better than most anything on the civilian market the last twenty years.
Remember: Chinese plot and plan decades, even centuries in advance and America until the next Budget.
 
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We all know that the next war will not be nuclear. They need the land and the people (maybe) intact.
 
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China has been on a mission to upend America for decades and all we do is foster that sentiment and make it easy for them to accomplish. It long-since been time to take them seriously. Start by...
Stop importing Chinese trinkets and shit
Repatriate the land and boot them off of large American farms, etc. Especially near military installations and sensitive gov and even private areas
Shut down their access (legal or otherwise) to our intellectual properties, patents, manufacturing and applications.
Guard our power grid and water supply.
Shoot down spy balloons and drones before they float across the entire country! (DUH)!
Cut the number of student visas and enrollment numbers for Chinese students.
Insure that the US dollar remains the world's monetary currency.
Closely monitor and limit any and all money that goes to the DC elites from China for any reason. Imprison anyone from congress who exceeds the limits or established perimeters
Get all drug manufacturing and chip manufacturing back on our soil and away from Beijing.
Get busy on mining and acquiring rare earth minerals from other sources.
Tariffs on China and those who deal with China are great, but we need to hit them harder.
Now the controversial part....And hang anyone selling secrets or spying on the US for China. (actually that goes for anyone aiding or spying for any foreign country)!
I really think with focused attention and resources all of this list (while unpopular for some) is pretty easy.

Rant off!o_O
 
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pshift said:
We all know that the next war will not be nuclear. They need the land and the people (maybe) intact.
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We have Hollywood to blame for the "nuclear war will make the world uninhabitable" fallacy.

It doesn't.

The trick with radiation is that if it's intense, then it's short lived, and if it's long duration, then it's not very intense.

A full scale nuclear exchange would undoubtedly result in some fallout. But no where near the scale presented by Hollywood.

And the really dangerous stuff will burn off in a week, if you happen to live in an area that would get hit hard by it.

This is Heroshima in 1945 and the same spot today.



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