It took Schaeffer only five months to analyze the setup and write code that would let him, from his laptop, tell the Scada system to open and close enough breakers to bring down the mock utility--without letting the legitimate operator see what was going on.

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It will help her to analyze the west side of Chicago and the neighborhood of Hyde Park, where she plans to write about mental health and criminal justice issues.

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