Cyberpower

In terms of participating in political activism that can truly change current society, I am a firm believer that Hack-tivism as used by such groups as "Anonymous" is a strong and effective way to show those in positions of dominant power, the power of public community groups. I recently read an article that I will reference below about the vulnerability of the US Power grid to a cyber attack. The article quotes a report prepared last year for the President and Congress that "emphasizes the vulnerability of the grid to a long-term power outage" saying that "for those who would seek to do our Nation significant, physical, economic, and psychological harm, the electrical grid is an obvious target." I mean, this is insane. It is crazy to think that something that America is so dependent on in almost every aspect of public and private life is so vulnerable to attacks from outsiders and, if we are to believe everything we read in the media, America sure has some enemies. This notion of hacking into the grid goes beyond the FBI retaining personal information as it means an entire country could be at the mercy of another because of the accessibility of the power grid to those who know how to access it. I'm not going to pretend to know anything about hacking or code or computers so I will refrain from trying to explain but there is some pretty amazing stuff in the link below if any of you are interested.

Like many of my blog postings, this article and this idea of accesibility relates to the idea of the right to space or the claiming of space. Once you realize that something your society is so dependent on (the power grid) is so accessible, you realize that that having "right to space" is no more than a fickle human construct around which we base much of our societal constructs.

POWERGRID ARTICLE