FBI: Chinese Hackers Preparing to Launch Massive Attack on U.S. Infrastructure

[ChattanoogaPhil]

If the Chinese government launched a large scale cyber attack on basic services it would probably be timed with a secondary event like an invasion of Taiwan. Otherwise, if there were no secondary event China would deny responsibility and blame criminal hackers. America is sooooo dependent on China… America would eagerly embrace China’s denial.

[Coal Dragger]

It baffles me that we allow critical infrastructure in this country to have computer systems controlling operations where those computers are online at all. No “air gap” whatsoever. Gotta improve productivity by automation as much as possible.

Security measures consist of lame ass Authenticator Apps, and making employees change passwords all the time. The only thing this accomplishes is ass pain for employees and job security for various IT desks.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

It baffles me that we allow critical infrastructure in this country to have computer systems controlling operations where those computers are online at all. No “air gap” whatsoever. Gotta improve productivity by automation as much as possible.

Security measures consist of lame ass Authenticator Apps, and making employees change passwords all the time. The only thing this accomplishes is ass pain for employees and job security for various IT desks.

Forcing changes to passwords and not mandating, the use of randomly generated ones, just helps to train the AI to learn what the possible passwords will be.

If you take Covid as a model for their use of weaponization of things, we are facing some kind of apocalyptic breakdown of our infrastructure, instead, they would just screw with it enough to piss everybody off, and allow us to play politics with it, rather than face the external threat.

[Alpha-17]

Oh abso-fvcking-lutely they would. But it won't be an "October Surprise", it'll be literally right before the election so there's no time to fix the outages. Of course that will take front and center and a week or two later they'll announce that "Despite the adversity the vote continued on through the disaster! These heroic election workers! Oh, BTW, Biden won again this time with 100 million votes! It's amazing!"

Bingo. Glad someone has been paying attention.

The media will back up the narrative, people will grumble, but in the end folks will go "well, ah shucks. Guess we'll try again in 4 years! That's how you fix the problem."

Definition of insanity.

[signal4l]

I have never understood our nations policy towards China.

They were a 3rd world nation back in the 70's.

They supplied the North Vietnamese, North Koreans with weapons.

We grant most favored nation status to them. We export our manufacturing base, allow them to counterfeit our goods, hack our computer systems. They import fentanyl and kill our youth. We educate their people on student visas then allow them to comitt industrial espionage when they get jobs at US companies.

We created our own worst enemy.

[signal4l]

https://youtube.com/shorts/ZK7CKpmdA...u43iEILXM5WxwL

China will never have a better opportunity to invade Taiwan. We have never had a more incompetent , weak president, VP. I am more than a bit worried

[flenna]

If you take Covid as a model for their use of weaponization of things, we are facing some kind of apocalyptic breakdown of our infrastructure, instead, they would just screw with it enough to piss everybody off, and allow us to play politics with it, rather than face the external threat.

Bingo, this is our government in a nutshell. Our government will just take it as an opportunity to tighten the screws on the American citizens.

[Diamondback]

Yeah sure...we hear this all the time and maybe true BUT....china makes ~$570 BILLION from USA annually. About 70% of their economy from USA. Their kicking our ass economically and doubt they have to resort to such tactics.

china isn't set up all that well, certainly not enough to kill the golden goose.

I can't figure the any angle where china would come out ahead and in fact be set back dramatically if USA cuts ties with them..

I don't doubt they are scheming something like this but again find it difficult to imagine them doing more than using it like a fear tactic.

I buy the Brandon October Surprise angle and would see the dems be more likely to pull something like this if they feel they are losing their grip..

Seeing how they see their own people's LIVES as expendable wholesale, where do you think mere money comes in on acceptable sacrifices for global dominance?

[Diamondback]

It baffles me that we allow critical infrastructure in this country to have computer systems controlling operations where those computers are online at all. No “air gap” whatsoever. Gotta improve productivity by automation as much as possible.

Security measures consist of lame ass Authenticator Apps, and making employees change passwords all the time. The only thing this accomplishes is ass pain for employees and job security for various IT desks.

This. I mean, I'm a mere historian and I've had clients require that I airgap their data, why can't .gov's and megacorps get it?

[davidjinks]

I’m sure this is nothing more than election interference. Don’t worry everyone….its fine….its all fine………nothing to see here…….

CIA operation in the offing?