Reading the news feeds this morning, and I see a report that there has been a blackout or two in India - affecting 310 million people in one instance, and 670 million in the other.
Remembering the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, I wonder just how, exactly, were those two figures determined, but regardless, let us assume the figures are accurate.
The latest figures that I found in a quick search state that (according to Google) India has a population of 1.324 billion, so that means roughly half of the ENTIRE country lost electricity.
Which raised the question - How much of India HAS electricity in the first place?
According to Wikipedia, 300 million Indians have NO access to electricity, so roughly 1 billion people have some form of electricity supply. Other sources claim that rural supply is intermittent and unreliable.
So that HALF losing power becomes closer to TWO-THIRDS - of the whole country.
Does anyone really believe that scale of outage can be caused by anything but deliberate, malicious action?
... and who in their right mind would interconnect and expose SCADA (System Control And Data Acquisition) systems so closely as to allow malicious action to propagate so far?
Monday, 7 August 2017
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