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Cyberattack Forces a Shutdown of a Top U.S. Pipeline Operator (carrying almost half of East Coast fuel supply)
DNYUZ ^ | May 8, 2021

Posted on 05/08/2021 7:17:53 AM PDT by george76

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To: Bill of Rights FIRST

“EVERYTHING should be MECHANICAL ONLY, HARDWIRED ONLY, ETC.!!!!!”

What are you, some kind of neanderthal? We need SOFTWARE, I tell you SOFTWARE, because that is the future.

Anyway, I’m against mechanical control because it prevents the Chinese from destroying this country (liberal thinking).


21 posted on 05/08/2021 8:07:49 AM PDT by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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To: PGR88
Russians? Or American environmentalists?

My money's on American enviro-wackos working at the behest of their Chinese puppet masters

22 posted on 05/08/2021 8:11:22 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (I wiy)
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To: mdmathis6

I knew it was something like that, so it was more if a rhetorical question.
Basically, because people can’t be bothered to go to the office any more.


23 posted on 05/08/2021 8:13:49 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: george76

Thanks again to the demented old puppet and his cohorts in the democRAT party that put him in power. We are leaderless!


24 posted on 05/08/2021 8:18:53 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE )
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To: george76

Won’t this help meet our emissions reduction efforts for the Paris Climate Accords? /s


25 posted on 05/08/2021 8:19:00 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: Disambiguator
Why are the control systems for critical infrastructure connected to the Internet in the first place?

Cost savings, purported production efficiencies, "real time" environmental monitoring, etc.... There is one Fortune 500 midstream (ie. pipeline) company my firm has worked with who has touted for years their investments in technology to operate their network from literally anywhere. When Covid broke out they were very proud of the fact that managers "could run the entire system from their bedrooms." Not saying I agree with it, but they even put it at the beginning of their annual reports. From their own investment literature and 10K reports:

digital transformation increasing cash flow while minimizing risk via real-time optimization & decision making. XXX Technology Ventures evaluating emerging technologies to improve sustainability and drive efficiencies

All this means is that hacking and internet security will be even more critical to US infrastructure in the future

26 posted on 05/08/2021 8:26:42 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: BobL
that pipeline serves RED states for the most part...

"VE HAF WAYS TO PUNISH YOU..."


27 posted on 05/08/2021 8:53:39 AM PDT by bitt (People who wonder if the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable.)
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To: george76

The people don’t want that evil stuff anyway. Time to learn what it’s like without it.


28 posted on 05/08/2021 8:59:52 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Any comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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To: know.your.why

“Great....gasoline prices are sure to jump overnight and stay there weeks after the problem is fixed.”

Just when I thought my energy stocks couldn’t go much higher...


29 posted on 05/08/2021 9:01:04 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Any comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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To: volunbeer

In demographic terms, your state is being run by the neo-Marxist dump of Seattle, so banning wood stoves is no surprise.


30 posted on 05/08/2021 9:10:30 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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To: BobL

LOL! I can walk to the grocery store.

Oh, wait, the trucks won’t be running, either. :-(


31 posted on 05/08/2021 9:11:18 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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To: george76; 100American; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

When the grocery trucks can’t gas up, it’s good to have extra food in the house.

PING!


32 posted on 05/08/2021 9:13:48 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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To: george76

I can hear the champagne corks popping all across D.C.


33 posted on 05/08/2021 9:16:19 AM PDT by no-to-illegals ( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die )
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To: BobL

Thanks. I appreciate your wishes for $4/gal. gas.


34 posted on 05/08/2021 9:16:33 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Disambiguator

Exactly.


35 posted on 05/08/2021 9:22:28 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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To: george76
My step daughter works for an engineering firm in the Southern US. This is a small firm. They suffered a ransomware attack from North Korea a few weeks ago.

Tell me there is no war.

36 posted on 05/08/2021 9:23:05 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Islam---At war with Western Civilization for 1400 years)
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To: george76
The United States has long warned that Russia has implanted malicious code in the electric utility networks, and the United States responded several years ago by putting similar code into the Russian grid.

Ummm, let's hope 'work arounds' have been created.... Same with the pipeline folks. They can't function in this world under the assumption that cyber attacks won't happen to them. This will become the new norm.

37 posted on 05/08/2021 9:27:34 AM PDT by GOPJ (January 6th - Patriot March Against Systemic Voter Fraud.)
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To: Disambiguator

Blame execs who want to control and monitor things remotely. I’ve seen HVAC in schools connected to the internet for troubleshooting.


38 posted on 05/08/2021 9:30:44 AM PDT by meatloaf
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To: george76
www.dnyuz.com

Source : DNyuz - Media Bias Fact Check
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/dnyuz/

"DNyuz is an Armenian website that plagiarizes content word for word from major news sources.
They literally copy and paste entire articles and embed their advertising code for profit."

39 posted on 05/08/2021 9:34:52 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Disambiguator

Its not supposed to be


40 posted on 05/08/2021 9:40:07 AM PDT by I got the rope
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