It is not if but when it happens. The other question that will most certainly arise is “Was it a false flag operation?”
Is Napolitano’s warning of a “cyber-911″ happening “imminently” sincere or politically motivated?! Reading the article below it seems that, for some reason, Congress is having difficulty passing supposed-necessary legislation that will help prevent such an attack from occuring. Are Napolitano’s remarks some form of public pressure on Congress to pass the legislation they have been trying to ram through the halls of Congress for years now? Or will it be the case of “I told you so!” to make the government look competent to its people? Time will tell.
I also wonder if the cyber attack will be used to justify a stock market retreat so that not to point out to the average ignornat American that our economic system has been brain dead since 2008 and being kept alive through a Q.E.-I.V.
What do TBPers make of this announcement?
Napolitano: ‘Cyber 9/11’ a very real threat
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned on Thursday that a major cyber attack is a looming threat and could have the same sort of impact as last year’s Superstorm Sandy, which knocked out electricity in a large swath of the Northeast.
Napolitano said a “cyber 9/11” could happen “imminently” and that critical infrastructure — including water, electricity and gas — would be vulnerable to such a strike.
“We shouldn’t wait until there is a 9/11 in the cyber world. There are things we can and should be doing right now that, if not prevent, would mitigate the extent of damage,” said Napolitano, speaking at the Wilson Center think tank in Washington and referring to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City in 2001.
Napolitano runs the sprawling Homeland Security Department, created in March 2003 in the aftermath of 9/11.
She urged Congress to pass legislation governing cyber security so that the government could share information with the private sector to prevent an attack on infrastructure, much of which is privately owned.
A cyber-security bill failed in Congress last year because business and privacy groups opposed it. The measure would have increased information-sharing between private companies and U.S. intelligence agencies. It also would have established voluntary standards for businesses that control power grids or water treatment plants.
Business groups said the legislation was government overreach. Privacy groups feared Internet eavesdropping.
New cyber legislation is being considered, but it is unclear whether it will get through the gridlocked Congress.
President Obama is expected soon to issue an executive order that would set up a voluntary system to help protect some critical infrastructure and offer incentives to companies that participate.
Without a new law, however, companies can’t be granted any kind of legal immunity for sharing information with the government and within the industry about potential threats
http://triblive.com/usworld/nation/3358607-74/cyber-napolitano-security#axzz2J164qu9L
JIMSKI says:
So what.
Ill load logs into the blower and set up the draw from the well. The well will be a mess as the pipes are prolly frozen at the cap. Hope all the snap cards stop working and they all starve.
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25th January 2013 at 2:54 pm
AWD says:
Reminds me of the Bush days and the colored threat levels, designed to keep people living in fear so they could use the Patriot Act to spy and take away more of your rights. I’m sure the government is planning it’s own attack to shut down as many conservative and criticizing websites as they can.
The end result of these announcements is always an attack on our freedom by the government.
And it may have something to do with “cyber hygiene”, another of Napolitano’s ruses to take away our internet freedom.
“Janet Napolitano: Internet users need to practice good ‘cyber-hygiene’”
http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2519577#.UQLmLHcmZ8H
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25th January 2013 at 3:08 pm
John A says:
Anyone that is not prepared to do without critical infrastructure (electricity, gas, water, sewage treatment) isn’t prepared at all. Many Americans would probably put a gun to their heads after three weeks without digital cable or 4G Smartphones. The hardship would be too much to bear.
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25th January 2013 at 3:18 pm
PlatoPlubius says:
@ John A
“Many Americans would probably put a gun to their heads after three weeks without digital cable or 4G Smartphones.”
and this would be a bad thing?!
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25th January 2013 at 4:16 pm
Old Coot says:
It appears that there is evil afoot.
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25th January 2013 at 4:24 pm
prtrb'd says:
Some sort of desperation. Not able to make a real false flag event occur in the cyber world, so it comes down to using the threat of one as an excuse to control internet? Internet has to go, one way or another, it’s making too many people aware of too many things that are best kept muted.
Anyone notice the rate of acceleration increasing on events useful to increase controls over the last couple years?
And what is it that all this control is going to be used for?
Makes a thinking person think it might be good to get tucked away somewhere safe and independent.
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25th January 2013 at 4:53 pm
Eddie says:
Well, Texas has its own power grid…and I can live without the internet, so I just don’t see the threat, personally.
Who is really worried about hackers? The military and the NSA and the CIA, because they’ve stirred up a hornet’s nest with their own cyber warfare.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this is some kind of preliminary front-running for a plan to keep regular people like us from networking via the world wide web. Limit civilian traffic to posting pics and clicking the Like button on Facebook. Get rid of pesky truth-telling bloggers.
Call me paranoid, but I just don’t trust that Napolitano bitch.
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25th January 2013 at 5:00 pm
youcanthavemyglock says:
LOL another false flag to give government a reason to have more control over media/internet. go fuck yourself Janet
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25th January 2013 at 5:36 pm
Thunderbird says:
The internet is a two edged sword for anyone that has become dependent on it; like the government and the banks. We did fine as a nation prior to it’s invention. The internet really is a threat to our national security. Decentralize and get our infrastructure computers disconnected from the internet. This would aid national security. But then the government and banks would lose their exclusive control.
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25th January 2013 at 6:20 pm
SSS says:
Utility companies certainly don’t need to be told how critical their operation is to our society. Thus, I’ll bet they already have established the best possible cyber security for their computer networks with the latest security upgrades being made on a continuing basis. I’m not well read on this issue, but it appears to be another federal government-constructed “answer” to a problem that doesn’t exist.
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25th January 2013 at 6:46 pm
harry p. says:
it is more fear-mining, trying to get people scared of the world around them so that big govt will cradle them. Tyranny 101.
i wouldn’t put it past that twat to orchestrate a false flag but our govt creates enough enemies on a daily basis, she really doesn’t need to.
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25th January 2013 at 7:09 pm
Novista says:
September, 2012 — multiple cyberattacks on JPMC, BOA, Wells Fargo, and PNC Financial Services Group Inc., Cur Joe Lieberman reckoned Iran done it. The banks want help from NSA, FBI, the military cyber czar, and DHS.
Chevron discovered Stuxnet in their systems in 2010 but didn’t say anything until last November. Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of Intelligence Committee, called for an investigation to track down how the media was first made aware of America’s involvement in Olympic Games. (The U.S. cyberattack on Iran, courtesy of Bush and Obama.)
“At a forum in July, NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander was asked to rate the state of U.S. preparedness for an attack on critical infrastructure on a scale of 1 to 10. He responded, “I would say around a 3.” ”
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9233158/After_Stuxnet_The_new_rules_of_cyberwar
“In addition, many industrial control systems that used to be “air-gapped” from the Internet are now connected to corporate networks for business reasons. “We’ve seen spreadsheets with thousands of control system components that are directly connected to the Internet. Some of those components contain known vulnerabilities that are readily exploitable without much sophistication,” says Marty Edwards, director of control systems security at the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) at the DHS.”
17 Jan 2013 – “Homeland Security: 2 U.S. power plants victim of cyber attack — Reports: Occurring at alarming rate… “Reminiscent of Stuxnet””
http://enenews.com/homeland-security-2-u-s-power-plants-victim-of-cyber-attack-reports-occurring-at-alarming-rate-reminiscent-of-stuxnet/comment-page-1
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/02/141908180/stuxnet-raises-blowback-risk-in-cyberwar
“Some of these [systems] can’t be protected,” says Weiss, the industrial control systems security expert. “We’re going to have to figure out how to recover from events that we simply can’t protect these systems from.”
Blowback. “No one could have foreseen … “
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25th January 2013 at 8:30 pm
gubmint cheese says:
Just wait until they throw something into the credit card and electronic banking system. Too many people have no cash and rely solely on this system. Also If the power is out the credit card processing machines won’t work and cash registers wont either. Digidollars only work in cyberworld.
Solar flare, magnetic storm take out some key satellite infastructure and the whole system could lock up under the stress.
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25th January 2013 at 9:36 pm
Makati1 says:
The more complicated (interconnected) anything gets, the more easily it can be destroyed. A solar flare may prove how interconnected the world is today when it happens and everything shuts down, permanently.
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25th January 2013 at 11:14 pm
IndenturedServant says:
Thunderbird said what I’ve always thought. All infrastructure computers should be completely disconnected from any and all networks. Only properly secured software backups and the like should ever be used with these systems. They might need to hire a few more humans to keep tabs on things but that’s a damn sight better than losing an entire grid.
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25th January 2013 at 12:59 am
Plato_Plubius says:
@ Prtb’d
You said, “Anyone notice the rate of acceleration increasing on events useful to increase controls over the last couple years?”
I believe many TBPers recognize this alarming trend. Just yesterday I read a story that detailed one of Bill Gates’ newly created foundations called “Better than Cash” Alliance which held informative meetings at Davos last year! I copy and pasted the article below for easy access. Look at this shit! We have Napolitano saying there is an imminent “9-11 styled” cyber attack looming; then we have Bill Gates interviewd and telling us how insecure and unreliable cash is and that we should go to some new form of completely digital “cashless” currency because it is SAFER!!!! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!!!
Billionaires are known for not keeping a lot of spending green in their wallets. But that’s not why Bill Gates hates cash. He hates it because of its effect on people at the opposite end of the wealth spectrum—the world’s poor and unbanked. The Better Than Cash Alliance, which was founded last September and is partially financed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, hosted a breakfast at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Speakers from the Philippines, Colombia, and the U.S., among other countries, made the case for why electronic transactions are better than cash payments.
Top five reasons, according to the alliance:
Transparency: Less corruption and theft when payments can be easily tracked. In Afghanistan, U.S. aid agencies use it so workers aren’t so vulnerable to robbery.
Security: The money gets where it’s supposed to go.
Financial inclusion: Electronic payment is a way for unbanked people to establish a record of on-time payment of their bills. This can be an “on-ramp” for them to get other services, such as loans, speakers said.
Cost savings: Moving physical cash around is costlier than zipping electrons. Many poor people, however, still find it cheaper to use cash, because some cashless networks charge high fees.
Access to new markets: This benefit is mainly for providers of financial services.
Kenya is a role model for the developing world when it comes to cashless payment. Its M-Pesa network, launched in 2007, has agents “on every block,” says Neal Keny-Guyer, chief executive of Mercy Corps, a nonprofit that’s a member of the alliance. Mauricio Cárdenas, Colombia’s minister of finance and public credit, said in an interview that he hopes within the year the national legislature will pass a law allowing nonbanks to take in cash and issue electronic vouchers.
The key is ensuring that the people who take in the cash are as well-supervised as bank tellers. “We see this as a first step,” Cárdenas said.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-hates-cash–here-s-why-185938362.html
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25th January 2013 at 12:01 pm
Eddie says:
TPTB hate these guys. Maybe this is what they’re afraid of:
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/intelligence-and-world-affairs/2013/jan/26/operation-last-resort-anonymous-retaltion-swartz-d/
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25th January 2013 at 4:30 pm
John A says:
Eddie,
I read your above link. I believe you are correct.
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25th January 2013 at 4:52 pm
prtrb'd says:
Plato, et all,
Another Gates story here. The interconnectedness of it?
Makes one wonder…
http://www.thedailybell.com/28592/Sic-Transit-Bill-Gates
And the cashless society would be so much easier to control. The movement of every thin dime could be observed and taxed. It would be a great end game to the current economic crisis. Out of chaos- order.
It’s a grand, fucked up idea, and so freakin crazy it will never work, not as long as there are enough thinking people who demand their freedom.
Scary thought that, there might not be enough!
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25th January 2013 at 7:53 pm