Figured i would let the smarter more talented investigate this one. Could be something could be nothing
Anyone see this yet?
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When is the asteroid coming?
Also, hopefully this impending false flag cyber-crisis will alleviate us from having to wear goddamn masks.
Also, hopefully this impending false flag cyber-crisis will alleviate us from having to wear goddamn masks.
Nothing new and a concern that has been growing every year. We (government agencies) are constantly on defense and offense to prevent this from happening. Not to say it won't, but nothing is certain besides taxes and death.
The taking down of the grid is laughable. I have 30 plus years working in that industry, have written many white papers about generation and transmission security and stability so I know a thing or two about this subject. It’s not going to happen. There are other ways of doing it much easier.
I agree completely. It would be fairly difficult to launch a cyber attack against a facility that isn't connected to external networks.
Yet you could probably take some of it down if you really wanted to. The only way you can be protecting it is if you think about how you would do it yourself. But since you are a good guy you would never do it or tell anyone else how to do it.
Learned that from my dad who is a process control chemical engineer.
Listening to the nay-sayers here... I gotta mention this. I can tell you all with 100 percent confidence that so many contractors show up at project sites with their company laptops or even their own laptops with shitty security controls on them and plug them into ICS (Industrial Control System) terminals. Malware authors are not stupid. They will identify people who use their laptops for such purposes and after a bit of recon (which usually involves dropping various pieces of malware on the system so they can gather specific information which will be transmitted back to the attacker the next time the laptop is on the internet), the attacker knows exactly what kind of ICS the laptop interacts with regularly. Malware authors can then drop specific malware on the laptop designed to attack specific infrastructure the next time its plugged into the appropriate ICS environment. These kinds of malware actors are playing the long game and are typically state sponsored actors.
And how do these laptop owners get compromised in the first place? By clicking on dumb shit in their email. The fact that they may have a degree in nuclear physics has not taught them that emails telling them their password has expired and "please click here" are actually very suspicious. Email is the biggest gaping security hole in all of IT and should just die in a fire.
OK I'm going back to guns now.
And how do these laptop owners get compromised in the first place? By clicking on dumb shit in their email. The fact that they may have a degree in nuclear physics has not taught them that emails telling them their password has expired and "please click here" are actually very suspicious. Email is the biggest gaping security hole in all of IT and should just die in a fire.
OK I'm going back to guns now.
Won’t give any details but that can’t happen. Do you think the good guys haven’t thought about that. It’s easier to take my 10/22 and go into the control room shoot everyone and have my free will, but what would that accomplish I took one power station down and that resulted in no effect on the system. Power stations go down all the time due to equipment issues and nobody knows it outside the electrical world.
I've been part of investigations that involved compromised laptops that were plugged into ICS systems. It can happen and has happened. Because unfortunately, not all the good guys are security experts.
There's always going to be the next big thing to take down society. Most ideas have already been thought of and the good guys have made precautions to prevent them.
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It would be easier to blow up a transmission tower before hacking the relay protecting the feeder. One would probably be surprised how unsophisticated portions of the grid still are.
Here in my little corner of SE AZ, power goes down several times each month, sometimes for a blip, sometimes for hours. None of these are more (so far) then an inconvenience, but extend that for several days or more, and things go straight to Hell in a hurry.
Around here, power means water and refrigeration, and to a lesser extent, communications. No fuel coming out of the underground tanks, no natural gas pressure in the mains, no electromechanical maintenance tools. No water going into the cattle tanks, no water sprinkling the crop circles.
Any onsite power generation is only as reliable as its fuel source. Add an EMP to the mix, and nothing with a computer operating it will work again. Ever.
I hate to say this, but I live on land that once supported a civilization. But it was a very small one, and it's a dead one now.
Take away the power and there's a die-off.
Beyond that, there's not much more to say; except the some of the mega-manipulators, like Oprah, think we have far too many people in the world and that we need to cull some, a lot of somebodies.
The recipients of that attention will be a lot more like us here than her.
All it takes is a few switches.
Who ya gonna shoot then? Times will be such that it'll be us shooting each other, squabbling over dwindling resources. What wouldn't you do in the name of your own family?
When it comes, the ones who go early will be the lucky ones.
When it ends, the ones who started it all will still be around.
I pray that God has something uniquely appropriate earmarked for them.
What those people have planned is not going to turn out in their favor. No plan survives the first derailment. They are playing with dice that could easily roll out the trigger to our species' extinction. They're not just freedom's worst enemy, they could well be mankind's as well. This world we live in is a complex world; so complex that even the most megalomaniacal among us could even begin to understand. When that house of cards falls, what few folks remain will be back in the bronze age, assuming that there are any left at all.
Einstein was right, we don't know what weapons will be used in the next world war, but we do know that the one after it will be fought with sticks and stones.
Nature will begin again with the microbes.
Greg
Around here, power means water and refrigeration, and to a lesser extent, communications. No fuel coming out of the underground tanks, no natural gas pressure in the mains, no electromechanical maintenance tools. No water going into the cattle tanks, no water sprinkling the crop circles.
Any onsite power generation is only as reliable as its fuel source. Add an EMP to the mix, and nothing with a computer operating it will work again. Ever.
I hate to say this, but I live on land that once supported a civilization. But it was a very small one, and it's a dead one now.
Take away the power and there's a die-off.
Beyond that, there's not much more to say; except the some of the mega-manipulators, like Oprah, think we have far too many people in the world and that we need to cull some, a lot of somebodies.
The recipients of that attention will be a lot more like us here than her.
All it takes is a few switches.
Who ya gonna shoot then? Times will be such that it'll be us shooting each other, squabbling over dwindling resources. What wouldn't you do in the name of your own family?
When it comes, the ones who go early will be the lucky ones.
When it ends, the ones who started it all will still be around.
I pray that God has something uniquely appropriate earmarked for them.
What those people have planned is not going to turn out in their favor. No plan survives the first derailment. They are playing with dice that could easily roll out the trigger to our species' extinction. They're not just freedom's worst enemy, they could well be mankind's as well. This world we live in is a complex world; so complex that even the most megalomaniacal among us could even begin to understand. When that house of cards falls, what few folks remain will be back in the bronze age, assuming that there are any left at all.
Einstein was right, we don't know what weapons will be used in the next world war, but we do know that the one after it will be fought with sticks and stones.
Nature will begin again with the microbes.
Greg
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