I just got off the phone with CIA senior analyst Tom Donahue.  As you may know, the CIA officially confirmed that hackers have been successfully knocking out electrical power grids all over the planet.  There's nothing we can do to stop these worldwide power outages because the electrical generation industry has grown completely addicted to the inherently flawed SCADA protocols.

Mr. Donahue called me with devastating news.  He confirmed the CIA has done quite a bit of research into the worldwide power outages that occurred on March 29th, 2008.  "The outages occurred in phases every hour on the hour in a sequence that radiated in a linear fashion from the GMT time zone," he revealed.  "We do not know who executed these attacks or why, but all involved intrusions through the Internet."

I asked him if cyber terrorists were behind the attack.  "No possible way," Mr. Donahue said.  "It absolutely had to be a nation-state like China or Iran.  The reason is that this power grid attack was like a scene out of the movie 'The Day The Earth Stood Still,'" he revealed.  "As each major city around the world went dark, its hospitals, aircraft in flight, and other critical events continued to receive electricity.  This is way beyond the state of the art for FARC's or Al Qaeda's cyber-terror teams.  And because the attackers went out of their way to not kill people, it's obvious to the CIA that this was a major test of a major new weapon system."

According to the CIA, the attackers diverted 73.34 megawatt-hours of electricity from Bankok and diverted almost exactly 900 megawatt-hours of electricity from Toronto.  The most horrifying example of diverted electricity occurred in Christchurch, New Zealand, when the city lost fully 13% of its total electrical supply for one hour.

The question burning on everyone's lips is, "what did the attackers do with all the energy they diverted?"  The CIA is still looking into that.  Mr. Donahue promised he'd alert me if they find out any more information...