Smart Grid – Hackers are Smarter

As always, innovations is controlled by fear and most security experts are apparently not as smart as hackers.  Security experts are warning against digitally based electricity distribution and transmission system known as the “Smart Grid” due to their speculations on hackers ability to hack into the system leaving millions of households and business without power.  Given the many advantages of having a nationwide “Smart Grid” technology implantation I just don’t see why such technology cannot be protected efficiently especially when such systems are built, implemented and maintained by individuals who are smarter than the feared hackers.

I’m not going to describe and analyze the technology as much as I would like to focus on the fact that fear is limiting innovation and in most cases the wrong people are hired to do such projects.  Innovative individuals and extremely smart engineer find it difficult to work on such projects for corporations that choose not to pay them more  than what they would make if they just run their own small businesses.

So to stop the hackers, we must pay innovative individuals the right money, otherwise, power will be out for few minutes until backup systems go online, if there is a backup system. Knowing how most corporations cut corners to save money, such technology could be problematic at first but eventually the system will be perfected.