Posted on 07/24/2019 6:54:31 AM PDT by SleeperCatcher
Playing behind the scenes of New York City’s Saturday blackout which left 73,000 locals – not counting tourists – in Midtown Manhattan and the Upper West Side without power are the ongoing power grid “hack attacks” being exchanged between the U.S. and Russia. Maybe Russia just scored one on us.
A sampling of open-source evidence confirms that Russia is fairly embedded in the U.S. grid and taking offensive measures against us. For instance, Russian hacking operatives (known alternately as Energetic Bear or Dragonfly) were caught in 2014 compromising software updates that would, in turn, provide access to power switches. A U.S. homeland security advisory published roughly a year later and one published more recently in March 2018 found that the same Russian intelligence entities were still hard at work. Recent developments also allude to escalation by both Russia and the U.S.
Just last month, the New York Times reported that the Trump administration is escalating attacks on Russia’s power grid (and other targets) “as a classified companion to more publicly discussed action directed at Moscow’s disinformation and hacking units around the 2018 midterm elections” and presumably against its ongoing and future efforts as well.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenationalsentinel.com ...
Simple answer - NO
The first one was a fire in a manhole <— Sorry Berkeley
The second one wasn’t a hacking attack
It was a collusion between Trump and the Russians. They are trying to get it to where only Trump’s buildings have power.
:D
Need a say it - /s
It worked!
Correct. And during a heatwave when power usage was redlining.
It’s a very normal thing to happen in an old decrepit city where there’s been too little investment in adding electrical generation capacity.
Or North Korea? Or Iran?
Russophobia nuts’ insanity strikes again.
This is an eco nazi created problem.
I thought the people at Con Edison said they didn’t know why this happened?
Pure crockpotery!!!
No, for thing they would not pick a high profile place like NY for a test. It’s a Ridiculous suggestion.
or China??
or North Korea??
or Iran??
or -—??
Or China?
The Russians? Not likely. I suspect the Duchy of Grand Fenwick. They invaded NYC once before. And they are itching to do it again.
Russia! Russia! Russia!
The Omnipotent Vlad the Bad is Everywhere!
He’s in your TV! He’s in your dishwasher! He’s got the keys to your car!
Russia! Russia! Russia!
Russia is the new “Joooooooo”.
I just like the dumb a## deblasio stating that they will be looking for another contractor to take the place of con Ed and scummy Cuomo pointing the finger like he always does
What, did Russian bots on Facebook tell New Yorkers to crank their AC’s during the heatwave?
Or did the Russians hack the weather and turn it up to its heatwave setting?
Why does the "media" seem to think that things that happen to new yawk or DC are of any real interest to the REAL AMERICA?
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