Ted Koppel

“Nobody’s in charge there, nobody has responsibility, nor can anybody require that they do work.”

— Ted Koppel

Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?

— Ted Koppel

“smaller companies with lean profit margins are simply not inclined to spend a great deal on cybersecurity.”

— Ted Koppel

“has to be connected to the company’s billing department, which in turn needs to be connected to whatever department actually conveys electricity…

— Ted Koppel

“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

“the extreme vulnerability of SCADA systems to cyber sabotage was first demonstrated, and dramatically so, during the administration of George W. Bush.”

— Ted Koppel

“The August 2003 blackout was a wake-up call for both industry and government regulators.”

— Ted Koppel

“The world is locked into a state of cyber dependency”

— Ted Koppel

“consumer deals directly only with the local company that delivers the electricity on that final leg.”

— Ted Koppel

“We remain largely oblivious to the potential catastrophe of a well-targeted cyberattack.”

— Ted Koppel

“the Internet is also giving rise to “filter bubbles” that decrease users’ exposure to conflicting viewpoints and reinforce their own ideological frames.”

— Ted Koppel

“(Several nation-states, most prominently the Russians and the Chinese, have already spent years conducting just such reconnaissance.)”

— Ted Koppel

“the only institution with real power to decide how the power industry is protected is the power industry.”

— Ted Koppel

“What about independent actors using cyberattacks to knock out one of our power grids? Are we at that point yet? “Simple answer,”…

— Ted Koppel

“it took on average 279 days before companies that had been breached came to realize it or were told by someone else. The”

— Ted Koppel

“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

Look, fundamentally there are two sets of questions that apply in the war against terrorism. The one set of questions deals with…

— Ted Koppel

“This is a society that regards information, the ability to communicate instantly, as an entitlement.”

— Ted Koppel

“It has never been more difficult to convince the American public of anything that it is not already inclined to believe. —”

— Ted Koppel

“With adversaries’ malware in the National Grid, the nation has little or no chance of withstanding a major cyberattack on the North…

— Ted Koppel

A secret blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to…

— Ted Koppel

“And let the record show: it is not easy to convince the American public of anything. For”

— Ted Koppel

“He is convinced that China and Russia have already penetrated the U.S. power grid, both for purposes of reconnaissance and, very likely,…

— Ted Koppel

“The Internet, as we now know it, carries a trove of inherent dangers. Those dangers are just beginning to reveal themselves, and…

— Ted Koppel

What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.

— Ted Koppel