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Home  »  Opinion Last Modified: Tue, Jul 11 2017. 01 41 AM IST The scariest thing about cyberwarfare Two superpowers may be stepping up a cyberwar without the rules of engagement that protect civilians in conventional wars Leonid Bershidsky There’s no cyberwar equivalent of the Geneva and Hague conventions. Photo: iStock A new report by  Bloomberg News  about Russia being suspected of hacking a dozen US power plants, including a nuclear one, is far more serious than any possible attempt to influence an election. It could be a sign of something even scarier: two military superpowers stepping up a cyberwar in the shadows and without rules of engagement that protect civilians from other kinds of warfare. Attacks on power grids have a potential for mass destruction. A temporary power outage doesn’t appear to be all that threatening compared with the use of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, but blackouts kill people even when they don’t last long. A lasting power grid breakd