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Who's behind the XTO-Exxon merge? The Russians.

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It's not quite "Tear down this wall," but the Russian bear can only play hardball with natural gas and its neighbors before the free market brings a response.

While ExxonMobil's announcement that it's buying Fort Worth's XTO Energy for $31 billion and $10 billion in debt is a rousing cheer for US shale producers, the real stimulus has been Russia's annual bully-thy-neighbor approach to winter gas supplies.

Holy infrastructure, Batman! Cyber-spies!

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In the cyber world last week, there was a lot of OMG-ing after the Wall Street Journal published its article about cyber-spies having hacked into the US power system and left software systems behind in it. The cybersecurity world was underwhelmed.

IT and cybersecurity-expert bloggers, some of whom follow security of the power system along with numerous other systems, observed that power grid vulnerability is hardly news. Real, yes, but not more real last week than last year or the year before, when it was big public news too, after a project of Homeland Security and other groups destroyed a generating unit by computer manipulation. One web site cited another's suggestion that the Journal story could have been planted by people eager to get Congress cracking on a cybersecurity bill:

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