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People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media. — Ted Koppel Fringe Copy Share Image
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong. — H. L. MENCKEN Not” — Ted Koppel Problem Copy Share Image
“Siemens had to go to every deployment of their software worldwide and change the password. Getting” — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead. — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“Nobody’s in charge there, nobody has responsibility, nor can anybody require that they do work.” — Ted Koppel Responsibility Copy Share Image
“No action was taken on the commission’s recommendations for protecting the electric power grid. Two” — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other.… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“Because of what’s come to be known as the NIMBY (not in my backyard) factor, there are relatively few high-power transmission lines… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“There is simply no reasonable way to respond to those few lines in the commission report estimating that only one in ten… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“FERC is merely enforcing regulations that it may have proposed but which the industry itself has modified to meet its own interests.… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“Not only would he and his ranch hands survive a cyberattack on the electric power grid that serves Wyoming, they would barely… — Ted Koppel Hacker Copy Share Image
“What about independent actors using cyberattacks to knock out one of our power grids? Are we at that point yet? “Simple answer,”… — Ted Koppel Hacker Copy Share Image
“A skillfully executed cyberattack serves the multiple purposes of inflicting damage and conveying a strong warning, all the while permitting the attacker… — Ted Koppel Hacker Copy Share Image
“Countries such as Iran and North Korea (of which more in the next chapter) cannot hope to match the United States in… — Ted Koppel Hacker Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is, in effect, the Recruiter-in-Chief for ISIS. ISIS wants nothing more right now than to have the world divided into… — Ted Koppel Chiefs Copy Share Image
“Once it’s handed off to the local companies that transmit electricity to the local consumers, no federal regulations apply. At that point,… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“There are, as previously noted, more than three thousand electric power companies in the United States. Many of the smaller electric companies… — Ted Koppel Electric power Copy Share Image
“In reality, though, the ranks of our enemies, those who would and can inflict serious damage on America, have grown and diversified.” — Ted Koppel Enemies Copy Share Image
What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were. — Ted Koppel Commandments Copy Share Image
“The Internet, as we now know it, carries a trove of inherent dangers. Those dangers are just beginning to reveal themselves, and… — Ted Koppel Danger Copy Share Image
“Would-be hackers, operating on what is sometimes referred to as the “Sneakernet,” can introduce their malware, their viral programs, by way of… — Ted Koppel Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“I think that within six months, if things weren’t straightened out adequately to have something besides anarchy, somebody’s going to show up… — Ted Koppel Anarchy Copy Share Image
“The majority who believed that power outages are limited in duration, that help always arrives from beyond the edge of darkness, is… — Ted Koppel Crisis Copy Share Image
“if nine of the country’s most critical substations were knocked out at the same time, it could cause a blackout encompassing most… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“Without ready access to electricity, we are thrust back into another age—an age in which many of us would lack both the… — Ted Koppel Electricity Copy Share Image
Well, Keith Alexander, the former director of the NSA wants to say every company in the United States falls under one of… — Ted Koppel Business Copy Share Image
“the extreme vulnerability of SCADA systems to cyber sabotage was first demonstrated, and dramatically so, during the administration of George W. Bush.” — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“Attempting to alert the American public to an impending crisis becomes more difficult when the subject itself is complicated and defies easy… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“George Cotter believes that the rash of cyberattacks on U.S. banks during the summer and fall of 2014 does, in fact, constitute… — Ted Koppel Hacker Copy Share Image
“Dispatching journalists into the field to gather information costs money; hiring a glib bloviator is relatively cheap, and inviting opinionated guests to… — Ted Koppel Journalists Copy Share Image
More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but… — Ted Koppel Book Copy Share Image
“Wellinghoff cited an analysis by FERC concluding that if nine of the country’s most critical substations were knocked out at the same… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“There is scripture that we refer to in the church,” Caussé told me, “that says that if you are prepared you shall… — Ted Koppel Religion Copy Share Image
“Still, many of the advantages enjoyed by millions of people today emerged from designs and inventions produced by innovators inspired by nothing… — Ted Koppel Engineering Copy Share Image
“what they have achieved is extraordinary. No group of comparable size comes close to matching the scale and organizational discipline of the… — Ted Koppel Discipline Copy Share Image
My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
