Bingo. They tested regional shutoffs of the Internet Kill Switch in advance of the coup.
Exactly. And I’d wager to bet it was the US Governmemt that did it.
My thoughts exactly.
correct
our current government is our enemy
Crazy Uncle Joe attacked us instead of the RUSSIANS?
MAKES SENSE...
Well, if these guys are so good, why can’t they protect their e-mail information?
LOL!
Yup. That headline, and the cast of characters in our criminal government certainly invites the conclusion that they'd be the first likely suspect.
It was clearly a test before the election.
My tinfoil says this will happen again on election night, or just before that.
But hey, I’m wearing lots of tinfoil, oops, aluminum foil these days.
One thread this morning implicated disgruntled NSA personnel as being behind it.
Last week there was News that US is preparing Cyber attack against Russia. May be coding error and they started attacking US and gave Russia user id and Password.
I thought I heard one Fox News doofus say that both “the Chinese AND the Russians” are claiming credit.
Lovely when two sworn enemies can simultaneously work together against their real enemy ... and ALL for “The Donald’s” benefit!
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend,” is practiced in China and Russia too.
The more we hear about “this is the Russians doing this” the more skeptical I become about that possibility. And I was 90% skeptical before y’days outage. This is NOT the Russians. It is NOT easy to detect “who is behind it”, even if the apparently originating IP addrs are Russian. I would not be surprised if our intel agys could detect where the real perps are, but I would be ultra surprised to have them reveal that they know, can know, and do know.
This isn’t the Russians, and even if it is Russian hackers (vs “the government”) THAT there is no way to determine.
This is very reckless making these accusations. Here we have an administration that has blundered its way into all manner of debacle, and told lie after lie after lie trying to convince the public that it both knows what it is doing and yet is at zero fault for any of the apparent abysmal results. It has told lie after lie defending brazenly criminal behavior by Hillary, the White House, the DNC, and on and on. It has told lie after lie defending #BLM and had every manner of dirtbag at the White House, dozens and dozens of times. NOTHING has ever been its fault. ANYTHING that has happened that has had a favorable outcome, this was the sheer genius of Barack 0bama shining through the cacaphony of Republican opposition and obstructionism. What we have here is an admin that has done nothing wrong, from January 21 2009 to today. The odds that this admin is telling the truth about this are vanishingly small.
Throwing everything they can to try and stop Trump. It is in God’s hands but we have to help for sure.
Likely correct.
Some infosec SME sources disagree with gov’t / MSM blame that Russia did it.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/who-shut-down-u-s-internet-friday-n671011
Preliminary analysis I’ve seen shows that a large amount of the DDoS traffic actually originated with the US specifically from a Kansas air force base.
Still trying to get a definitive quotable source to cite here.
Jim, many Very Much depend on your site for reliable news.
Please provide your input on how you envision providing our FR community with three comms objectives:
1. What alternate FR sites should we use in case FR does not resolve due to DNS name resolution problem, or its been taken down?
2. What reliable independent news sources should we access when the Internet is down, ie: shortwave conservative broadcast frequencies, ie: Trunews.com shortwave station, Oath keepers, for instance?
3. In the event when the SHTF, how can fellow FReepers communicate for SITuation REPorting, ie: HF shortwave WinLink email data packet radio transmission, 2 meter voice repeater?
Has this topic come up before and what are your thoughts?
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3483382/posts