Posted on 01/02/2017 9:00:11 AM PST by little jeremiah
The Washington Post has retracted its story about Russian hackers penetrating the nation’s electricity grid with a virus found in a Burlington, Vt., electric company laptop.
“Authorities say there is no indication of that so far [that Russians had penetrated the US electric grid],” according to an editor’s note attached to a corrected version of the story on the paper’s Web site.
“The computer at Burlington Electric that was hacked was not attached to the grid,” the editor’s note read.
News of the supposed hack had set off a firestorm of recriminations, with Vermont leaders calling Russian President Vladimir Putin “a thug” earlier Saturday, after one of the state’s electric utilities found a virus on a laptop computer.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Also, was this “the Russians” or simply “Russians” that perpetrated this hack, such as it was?
The lefties are so convinced now that Mr. Putin has gotten his countrymen to hack things in the USA, that they didn’t bother to really check out this story before running with it.
Too many lies or even just carelessness has a way of doing a number on one’s credibility.
And I still want to know, what is it that the Russians were supposed to have done to the election? Other than being very publicly cordial to Donald Trump?
It’s a good thing they have a real newsroom with editors so no fake stories get out!
Not.
Did they also identify their story as an example of the “fake news” they’re always ascribing to right-wingers?
“Washington Post retracts story about Russian hack at Vermont utility”
The Washington Post prints fake news and dishonest information all the time.
They never retract a story unless it can be shown beyond any doubt to be totally false.
It would be so much more efficient to simply retract the Washington Post.
And I still want to know, what is it that the Russians were supposed to have done to the election?
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This coming Tuesday’s Message from Trump:
“We found out that Hillary bribed the Russians to hack the election so she could win by giving them a huge share of US Uranium mining rights, AND SHE STILL LOST because the voting machines had better security than Hillary’s private server , the DNC servers, and John Podesta’s email account !”
>>Also, was this “the Russians” or simply “Russians” that perpetrated this hack, such as it was?
I think it was DHS “rushing” to create more chaos before Obama is gone forever. They forced the utility company I work for to run some software that check for vulnerabilities. The software knocked our control system offline for over an hour until we could intervene. I supervise the control system group, so this is not third-hand info.
Who knows what “Russian” breadcrumbs they left behind.
There have been several times when I checked the stats on my Blog. At least twice, scaring me, were thousands of hits from.....?
RUSSIA?
One was from Bellarusse if I knew how to spell.
This is no big deal for bigger web sites but you get a little home Blogger like me getting hundreds, sometimes thousands of hits, in one day.....
.....that is damn odd.
Which means pretty much nothing but give the Dems and media credit....all that’s been in the news, the Sunday talk shows, Fox, CNN and everyone else....has been this Russia “hack” which is a big lie.
Somebody called up the post and told a lie about that laptop at Joe Blow’s electric company. The Washington Post, bowing to whoever was at the other end of that call, probably Valjar but perhaps a Hillary supporter....the Wapo prints the story.
I believe they all knew it was not true. The idea was to throw the words, the notion, the concept....out there that lookit how dangerous the Russians are, now they hacked into the electric grid.
I believe it was known to be a lie but Jane Snowflake, she hears this and calls everyone she knows, posts on Facebook, sends out on Twitter...that the Russians have hacked the electrical grid...
OMG WE’RE DOOMED.
Of course Jane Snowflake never gets the Wapo retraction.
All part of the plan. They treat us like little children, figuring out the many ways they can fool us.
They think we were all born at night....LAST NIGHT!
Well that sure sounds like an incompetent anti-malware system all right.
Oh. Right. The Mainstream Media.
THIS WAS INTENTIONAL FAKE NEWS AND THEY GOT EXPOSED.I am astounded at the “fake news” from the leftist. The entire attempt to imply that Trump didn’t whip hillary fair and square and it was the “Russians” is beyond mind boggling. To use agencies of government with absolutely no credibility after WMD and “The Video” ( CIA) or to use the Commie FBI after nor prosecuting ANYONE for taking bribes through the foundation or exposing government documents on illegal servers thousands of times??? Give me a break. Trump will wipe out hundreds of the hack leftists political appointment bureaucrats and those that are civil servants get to move their families to our new joint cia/ fbi field office in Point Barrow ,Alaska in February. Start packing. Let me add that if Trump has proof that this crap about Russia is all a lie this will be a slaughter. He may make a statement Tuesday or Wednesday that will rock the world.
I wish someone on the right in the public would hammer that point about Hillary selling uranium to the Russians.
I doubt it. We saw it in the Matthew Shepard case, as just one example, where he was painted as a saint. When the truth emerged that he actually had been arrested for molesting little boys and was killed by his lover in what appears to be a drug deal gone wrong, MSM was silent.
Russians were busy reading your blog? Trying to understand here.
It could have been anybody. It was a common piece of malware written in Russia ( guy probably got infected on a porn site ), that is distributed by many different hackers worldwide. They use that it was written in Russia that it was "an attack from Russia" when in reality, it could have come from anywhere.
>>Well that sure sounds like an incompetent anti-malware system all right.
They don’t even pretend that it’s malware. They actually force you to set this loose on your system from INSIDE, and a control system that is totally secure from internal attacks probably doesn’t work.
They are trying to apply the rules for file servers and email servers to process controls. The effects are not good.
It’s like somebody lied into the news megaphone, and then the news megaphone just breathlessly carried it because, well, that’s what they were told?
“God renders foolish the wisdom of the wise.”
Make no mistake there is a divine wind behind all this. People will need to choose sides wisely, and the need will become ever more obvious. I’m not hoping that the people of our current left go to hell — not at all, not one bit. I’m hoping they take the hint from heaven and come to heaven.
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