BRAZIL HACKED INTO DARKNESS?

Back in the formative days of the web, you heard lurid and grandiose tales of super-hackers – based in Albania or Uzbekistan, and working on old Red Army computers – who were poised to take out airports, hospitals, TV networks, entire banking systems, and generally hack us back to the stone age. Legend claimed that someone called The Black Avenger had shut down an entire hydroelectric project in Ethiopia. But none of the worst case scenarios ever materialized, and hacking turned out to be no more epic than identity theft and an occasional viral freakout. Until yesterday, that is, when the Brazilian power grid went out and the world and its uncle started screaming hacker. The Brazilian central government now blames the outage on bad weather but the world continues to wonder if maybe the Son of the Black Avenger is on the loose.

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