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?
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!
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.
“Also, was this “the Russians” or simply “Russians” that perpetrated this hack, such as it was?”
there never was an “attack”; all that happened was that someone at one of the two Vermont utilities found one piece of common malware on one laptop not connected to grid control, where said malware was written by some Russian hacker long ago, but now is used by thousands of hackers worldwide. Based on that, WaPo genned up the fake news that “Russians hacked the power grid” and the rest of the fake stream media instantly spread the fake news far and wide.
Washington Post has become the premier maker of fake news.
When terrorists commit actual attacks, they get off because of that attitude - why not extend it to an actual case of a home-grown idiot?...
“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.”
Naaah.
They don’t believe it for a second. You really don’t understand that they lie constantly?
Full fledged Dan Rather Alert
According to Forbes, it could have just been that the Employee visited a malicious website and encountered the malware. This malware is apparently readily available to anyone. Could be some Russian, but not necessarily so.
Check out the thread that has the Forbes link directly above this one.