Posted on 06/18/2021 7:18:48 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
President Biden's list of 16 key infrastructure entities that are "off-limits" to Russian cyberattacks has effectively given the Russians a green light to target everything not on that list without facing serious repercussions, national security experts and senior Republicans tell Fox News.
Russian cybercriminals are believed to be behind a pair of recent cyberattacks targeting the Colonial Pipeline and meat-processing company JBS Holdings. Both companies paid multi-million dollar ransoms to regain access to their systems.
Biden told reporters Wednesday he gave President Vladimir Putin a list of 16 critical infrastructure entities that are "off limits" to a Russian cyberattack: "I talked about the proposition that certain critical infrastructure should be off limits to attack — period — by cyber or any other means. I gave them a list, if I’m not mistaken — I don't have it in front of me — 16 specific entities; 16 defined as critical infrastructure under U.S. policy, from the energy sector to our water systems."
Biden's "off-limits" list has led experts and members of Congress to question whether everything not on the list is therefore fair game for attacks.
"As soon as you draw red circles around things you don't want Russia to attack, you're both telling Russia what is most valuable to you and that they can attack anything else without serious consequence," Rebecca Heinrichs, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, told Fox News.
"It could actually entice Russia to increase attacks against all the other entities besides those 16 things. We should be complicating Russia’s calculations not making them simpler and certainly not essentially green-lighting any kinds of attacks," Heinrichs added.
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And China. And everyone else.
Might as well make multiple keys to my house & garage & pass them out.
NO! It provides our enemies a target priority list!
Joe Dementia is a treasonous bastard.
That’s how we got the Korean War.
Dean Acheson communicated a defensive zone in Asia as we struggled against communism. Korea was not in the zone. The communists moved on Korea. The US said “Oops!” and defended Korea.
The left is so F*cked up in the head that they still believe Russia hacked into and influenced the 2020 POTUS race. China, North Korea and Iran must be laughing their ass off right now.
Proof his handlers are just as moronic as he is.
“As soon as you draw red circles around things you don’t want Russia to attack, you’re both telling Russia what is most valuable to you and that they can attack anything else without serious consequence,”
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