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Tomorrow's cities - what happens when lights go out?

Rucking_Fetard · 2014-09-11 19:20:14

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28106818 Nothing really new in this, apart from the miniature Cybercity they have built using scaled down bits from real cities to find weaknesses. Kinda cool. 8 parts though so could be decent together. Will bump if I think of it.

11-09-2014 08:20PM

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In the first of an eight week series of articles about how technology is changing our cities, Jane Wakefield asks whether a city that is plugged into the network is vulnerable to hackers.

The nightmare scenario that has had government leaders and city bosses biting their fingernails for decades has come true. Chicago has been hacked.
The traffic lights have ceased to function, leaving roads in chaos. The city has no electricity. It is in the hands of the hackers.

If the scenario sounds far-fetched, you'd be right - for now at least.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28106818

Nothing really new in this, apart from the miniature Cybercity they have built using scaled down bits from real cities to find weaknesses. Kinda cool.

8 parts though so could be decent together. Will bump if I think of it.

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