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The claim by the Democrats that the Russians \u201cHacked\u201d the recent election is absurd on it\u2019s face. The retaliation by Obama, throwing 30 Russian diplomats out of the United States was countered by the Russian government inviting American diplomats to a new years party. One of the problems with the claim that Russia hacked Podesta\u2019s email was the actual simplicity of the attack. In fact, the entire claim that it was the fault of the #DamnRussianHackers has already begun to fall apart thanks to real computer security professionals. (The MSM refuses to cover this for obvious reasons. It goes against their narrative)<\/p>\n
Late last week, the Washington Post published a story<\/a> that the Russians had hacked the American Power grid. This set off another round of teeth gnashing by the usual idiots on both sides of the aisle. Then the truth came out. The Vermont Utility found some old malware on a laptop that had never actually connected to the power grid servers. This forced the Washington Post to \u201crewrite\u201d their fake news story. Here\u2019s what they said<\/a>:<\/p>\n Editor\u2019s Note:<\/b><\/strong> <\/b>An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electric grid. Authorities say there is no indication of that so far. The computer at Burlington Electric that was hacked was not attached to the grid.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n Pesky thing, those facts, aren\u2019t they? Here\u2019s what those \u201cHighly trained journalists with experienced editors and 15 layers of fact checkers\u201d wrote:<\/p>\n A code associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration has been detected within the system of a Vermont utility, according to U.S. officials. <\/b><\/p>\n And, no it wasn\u2019t. In fact, it was an ancient bit of code that anyone can get and has been detectable by virus checkers for about 3 years now. However, the WaPo continued their cries of \u201cThe Sky is falling!! Hillary won! It was those #DamnRussianHackers who stole the election and now want to shut off our power!!!\u201d<\/p>\n While the Russians did not actively use the code to disrupt operations, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a security matter, the discovery underscores the vulnerabilities of the nation\u2019s electrical grid. And it raises fears in the U.S. government that Russian government hackers are actively trying to penetrate the grid to carry out potential attacks.<\/b><\/p>\n There is no question that the American power grid needs a lot of work, and not just from a computer security point of view. Our grid is ancient compared to other countries, such as Germany and Japan. Of course, the fact that we blew up their grids in the 1940\u2019s may have something to do with that.<\/p>\n As to security, a major cause for the problems is sheer lazyness and incompetence. I recall, years ago, that news came out on how a certain model of SCADA had a hard coded administrator password and that it had been identified and handed out to the hacker community. That company had to fix the issue very quickly, which involved physically upgrading the firmware on each unit. Oh, I was working in the energy field at the time, and the day that story broke, representatives of the company were in our offices trying to sell us the very same units. They didn\u2019t get the sale.<\/p>\n In any case, someone finally did some actual reporting and contacted Burlington Electric to ask what was going on.<\/p>\n Burlington Electric said in a statement that the company detected a malware code used in the Grizzly Steppe operation in a laptop that was not connected to the organization\u2019s grid systems. The firm said it took immediate action to isolate the laptop and alert federal authorities.<\/b><\/p>\n As I mentioned above, the malware in question had no connection to the Russians and was in fact, very old and easily available to anyone over the age of 12. Now the Washington Post is walking back the story big time. In an article they posted yesterday<\/a>, they said:<\/p>\n As federal officials investigate suspicious Internet activity found last week on a Vermont utility<\/a> computer, they are finding evidence that the incident is not linked to any Russian government effort to target or hack the utility, according to experts and officials close to the investigation.<\/b><\/p>\n An employee at Burlington Electric Department was checking his Yahoo email account Friday and triggered an alert indicating that his computer had connected to a suspicious IP address associated by authorities with the Russian hacking operation that infiltrated the Democratic Party<\/a>. <\/b><\/p>\n So Yahoo Mail, (People still use that?) is now part of the alleged hacking of the Democrat party? Didn\u2019t I read something that Yahoo had been hacked a few years ago<\/a> and that some 1 billion accounts had been compromised? It must have been those #DamnRussianHackers getting set up.<\/p>\n Officials told the company that traffic with this particular address is found elsewhere in the country and is not unique to Burlington Electric, suggesting the company wasn\u2019t being targeted by the Russians. Indeed, officials say it is possible that the traffic is benign, since this particular IP address is not always connected to malicious activity. <\/b><\/p>\n The Post initially reported incorrectly that the country\u2019s electric grid had been penetrated through a Vermont utility. After Burlington Electric released its statement saying that the potentially compromised laptop had not been connected to the grid, The Post immediately corrected its article and later added an editor\u2019s note explaining the change.<\/b><\/p>\n What happened with the Washington Post is indicative of most of the so called \u201cMain Stream Media.\u201d They went from so called \u201cNeutral journalists\u201d to outright shills and propagandists for the Democrats and Felonia von Pantsuit. They were stunned when Felonia was defeated by President-Elect Donald Trump.<\/p>\n Stunned might not be the correct word. Poleaxed would be more like it. The WaPo, along with pretty much everyone one on the left has been trying to find the \u201cReal\u201d reason Felonia had her head handed to her. Since all the embarrassing emails from the DNC and John Podesta showed up on Wikileaks, plus Trump\u2019s willingness to talk with Putin instead of start a World War, the MSM has decided that it was the #DamnRussianHackers, on orders of Vladimir Putin, that stole the election from Felonia.<\/p>\n What they refuse to consider was that Felonia von Pantsuit, aka Hillary Rodham Clinton, was an inept, corrupt and utterly incompetent candidate. They also haven\u2019t mentioned that all the email that came out, which showed just how corrupt the Democrats actually are, has never been shown to be false. They also refuse to accept the word of Julian Assange that the data didn\u2019t come from the Russians. Well, it is Assange, and he\u2019s not the most credible of people, but in this case, he\u2019s probably telling the truth. Because there are so many questions regarding the source of the material, President-Elect Trump has been holding off making accusations, and has been asking for this thing called \u201cEvidence.\u201d<\/p>\n The incident comes as President-elect <\/b>Donald Trump has cast doubt <\/b><\/a>on the findings of intelligence officials that the Russians conducted a hacking operation designed to help him win the White House.<\/b><\/p>\n And once again we see why the Washington Post has a crater the size of Texas where their credibility as a newspaper once was. If facts don\u2019t fit their beliefs, the facts are ignored. Trump, on the other hand, wants to know what actually happened, not just make accusations with no proof. He\u2019s not alone in questioning the \u201cfacts.\u201d<\/p>\n But a range of cybersecurity experts say that although the intention of the report was good, it lacked specific details that would enable firms to detect Russian government hackers. At least 30 percent of the IP addresses listed were commonly used sites such as public proxy servers used to mask a user\u2019s location, and servers run by Amazon.com and Yahoo. <\/b><\/p>\n Amazon? Who is the owner of Amazon again? Oh yeah, Jeff Bezos. I seem to recall he also bought a newspaper recently.<\/p>\n Amazon\u2019s founder and chief executive, Jeffrey P. Bezos, owns The Washington Post.<\/b><\/p>\n Oh yeah, he bought the Post. I can see he\u2019s brought a lot of common sense ideas on how to report a story…NOT!!<\/p>\n \u201cNo one should be making any attribution conclusions purely from the indicators in the [government] report,\u201d tweeted Dmitri Alperovitch, chief technology officer of CrowdStrike<\/a>, which investigated the DNC hack and attributed it to the Russian government. \u201cIt was all a jumbled mess.\u2019\u2019 <\/b><\/p>\n Which is exactly the way the \u201cLets Nuke Russia for old times sake!\u201d crowd wants it.<\/p>\n So, let me summarize. A laptop that has never actually connected to the systems managing the Vermont power grid, (Actually, it\u2019s called the New England ISO), had a piece of malware that is both old and commonly available. The laptop user checked his email on Yahoo and that tripped a network security alert.<\/p>\n No damage was done to the power grid, no information was stolen, (Other than the user\u2019s personal email perhaps), the malware isn\u2019t actually designed to do anything to the grid. So it\u2019s the Russians fault and we need to nuke Moscow now, that about cover it?<\/p>\n Yeah, thought so.<\/p>\n Thatisall<\/p>\n ~The Angry Webmaster~<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n [yasr_visitor_votes size=”large”]<\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good day all. And welcome to 2017. 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