Breaking: Pentagon Imposes Emergency Shutdown of Its Secret Internet Protocol Router Network – Handles Classified Information Up to the Secret Level

GP ^ | December 15, 2020 | Jim Hoft

[White Lives Matter]

The Pentagon imposed an emergency shutdown of computer network handling classified material on Tuesday.

This follows the rare Emergency Directive 21-01 on Sunday night by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in response to a KNOWN COMPROMISE involving SolarWinds Orion products.

[White Lives Matter]

This is pretty big. I wonder if DNI Director John Ratcliffe will present what's going on here in his report to Trump Friday.

[RummyChick]

I saw reports GMAIL is not working correctly. Makes me wonder how GMAIL is connected to that particular network

[Secret Agent Man]

Its google.

Google has ties into the intelligence network, alphabet agencies.

[BenLurkin]

Carrier pigeons.

[JohnDeereGreen]

Its huge, sipr involves a lot of logistic stuff as well as Intel. Cant be more specific but lots of things are involved in it.

[TigerLikesRoosterNew]

Where is the entry point for this hacking?

[Salvavida]

This is massive. Most of the work done by the Joint Staff and the Services is on SIPR. The CI damage assessment is going to be a long process.

[RummyChick]

Yeah, that is why I wondered about it.

Dont really know if any other types of services are not working - like yahoo.

If so, should wonder about them too.

[RummyChick]

This kind of thing is the reason why certain people have paper only files - allegedly.

I have no first hand knowledge.

[a fool in paradise]

Good thing our elections are safe < / sarc >

[madison10]

Gmail is not even coming up at all.

[TigerLikesRoosterNew]

My question is what the enemy will be doing while U.S. is preoccupied with network shutdown.

[madison10]

Belay that. It is just very slow.

[RummyChick]

It is for me.

So perhaps mine is not on whatever backbone this is or whatever jargon is appropriate.

[eyeamok]

Since Biden is so cozy with China, why don't we just ask him to talk to his handlers friends

[ClearCase_guy]

Makes me wonder how GMAIL is connected to that particular network

SolarWinds is everywhere, so it probably is a source of trouble for GMAIL out here in the world.
But GMAIL itself is not on SIPRNet. SIPRNet is a closed system.

[RummyChick]

the video of this conversation looked like some kind of communication that they were trying to hide

[Jeepers43]

"Makes me wonder how GMAIL is connected to that particular network"

It ain't.

[al baby]

Did Hillarys toilet back up?

[Salvavida]

This doesn’t give the enemy free reign to do what they want. The lion-share of national Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) is on JWICS, not SIPR.

This is an inconvenience. There will be damage assessments. But not a show-stopper by any means.

Off the top of my head, China now has a snap shot of our basic national and defense strategy, intelligence requirements, force posture, and defense programs— many of which is confirmation of what they already knew.