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Tom Donaghey's Reviews > Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
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LIGHTS OUT by Ted Koppel is a report on the possibility, and preparedness for, an attack on the power system in America. It is all encompassing, detailed, well researched and scary as hell. This is a book that everyone in the electrical power organization, as well as all politicians with the authority to plan for what feels like the inevitable attack, should read.
There are three sections to the book. A Cyberattack details what has already happened against our power grid, and the responses to it. Mr. Koppel (The Emmy and Peabody award winning journalist) interviews those in power and researches into what it would take to attack us through this means, the major players who would stand to gain, and the wild cards.
A Nation Unprepared details the lack of planning, foresight or the wishful thinking of agency after agency. It appears we are a nation of reactors, willing to pitch in to fix something once it has happened, but we are not so good at preparing for possibilities. To be fair, the range of possibilities spans a universe of events, happenings and accidents, and to prepare for everything eventually means nothing would get done today.
The third section focuses on what people are doing to prepare for the worst. You've heard of them, read about them, know some of them, maybe even are them. They are the Preppers and they come in all varieties and causes. These are the individuals who have taken it upon themselves to get ready for what might be coming. They are not going to rely on any government to get them through an extraordinary, life threatening event. They, in the American spirit, believe and rely on themselves, their family and their friends.
LIGHTS OUT is a well tempered report aimed at alerting all of America to a very real possibility. Mr Koppel leaves it to the reader to reply in whatever manner they see fit. As for me, I'm thinking about solar panels on my south facing roof. I might not be a bad thing to get off the grid a bit.
I won this book through the GoodReads program.
There are three sections to the book. A Cyberattack details what has already happened against our power grid, and the responses to it. Mr. Koppel (The Emmy and Peabody award winning journalist) interviews those in power and researches into what it would take to attack us through this means, the major players who would stand to gain, and the wild cards.
A Nation Unprepared details the lack of planning, foresight or the wishful thinking of agency after agency. It appears we are a nation of reactors, willing to pitch in to fix something once it has happened, but we are not so good at preparing for possibilities. To be fair, the range of possibilities spans a universe of events, happenings and accidents, and to prepare for everything eventually means nothing would get done today.
The third section focuses on what people are doing to prepare for the worst. You've heard of them, read about them, know some of them, maybe even are them. They are the Preppers and they come in all varieties and causes. These are the individuals who have taken it upon themselves to get ready for what might be coming. They are not going to rely on any government to get them through an extraordinary, life threatening event. They, in the American spirit, believe and rely on themselves, their family and their friends.
LIGHTS OUT is a well tempered report aimed at alerting all of America to a very real possibility. Mr Koppel leaves it to the reader to reply in whatever manner they see fit. As for me, I'm thinking about solar panels on my south facing roof. I might not be a bad thing to get off the grid a bit.
I won this book through the GoodReads program.
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