Our Greatest Threat to the Internet … Electrical Power

Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
13 min readJul 10, 2019

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Today flights at Gatwick Airport from 5pm until around 7pm were suspended due to a power failure, and which caused the computer systems to fail. How can this still happen in a 21st Century world where we are so dependent on our IT systems? In total 26 flights were diverted and eight were cancelled.

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.