Peter Neumann may refer to: (wikipedia)
Generally speaking, unless we've had a crisis we don't spend a lot of effort on emergency preparedness. Once we have a problem we ban plastic knives on airplanes, but we tend not to think of the worst-case scenarios because they're too difficult to deal with.
The common denominators are electrical power and telecommunications.
Electrical power is the common factor to all those problems.
It shouldn't surprise you that a system that is designed to be manufactured as cheaply as possible is designed with no security constraints whatsoever.
