On: The Threat to Americas Electrical Grid Is Bigger Than Imagined

[TeMPOraL]

> Everything that has an off switch has an on switch.

Not really. The ultimate off switch for every appliance is that appliance burning out. And quite a lot of dangers to the power grid include, or would cause, physical destruction of key infrastructure elements.

[munin → TeMPOraL]

that scenario is covered in the second paragraph ;)