Hackers Cut Cities’ Power
January 19th, 2008The spook’s moving lips tell us nothing we don’t already know, so… What is the spook really trying to tell us?
Via: Forbes:
Cyber-security experts have long warned of the vulnerability of critical infrastructure like power, transportation and water systems to malicious hackers. Friday, those warnings quietly became a reality: Tom Donahue, a CIA official, revealed at the SANS security trade conference in New Orleans that hackers have penetrated power systems in several regions outside the U.S., and “in at least one case, caused a power outage affecting multiple cities.”
“We do not know who executed these attacks or why, but all involved intrusions through the Internet,” Donahue said in a statement. “We suspect, but cannot confirm, that some of these attackers had the benefit of inside knowledge.”
Other details were murky: Donahue didn’t say when or where the cyber attacks had occurred, or how many people had been affected. He also glossed over what element of the systems had been exploited.
The spook is prepping the sheeple by suggesting the the Correct Thoughts for when a phase of the die off is implemented: *must believe* it’s “malicious hackers” from whatever resource-rich country is under the US’s hob-nailed boot or in its crosshairs at the time. *Is NOT* the US’s shadow government.
It might also be prep for a power-outage strike on a foreign country. It would be the ideal sort of thing to hit the Iranian Oil Bourse with, for example (now due to open in early Feb 2008):
http://www.energybulletin.net/12125.html
I think this reddit comment suggests a plausible hypothesis.