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- somespecial, on 01/26/2008, -7/+265"cities outside the U.S." HMMMM, yet there is no news about cities losing power. What cities? Just believe us.
- DrGizmondo, on 01/26/2008, -9/+209here in the UK mI5 and MI6 are always releasing statments like this. As long as were all living in fear it makes us easier to control.
- Waiting2awake, on 01/26/2008, -9/+170 I hate to be a cynic here (but after the last nearly decade...)....
Step 1 - Create a domestic terrorist plan with complete one way trips.
Step 2 - Release a few statements such as these.
Step 3 - Selectively cut out power in certain areas and claim it is these hackers.
Step 4 - Once the claim is bought cut off power and state that this time THEY have gone to far as they killed/wreaked havoc/compromised national security/ etc
Step 5 - America citizens = Terrorists.
Obviously crazy stuff. right? - BRODEL, on 01/26/2008, -5/+126It's the start of a fire sale! Only the Mac guy can save us now!
- DeusNova, on 01/26/2008, -4/+120BS. This is just an attempt for the government to control the internet.
- MrTonic, on 01/26/2008, -0/+106Don't really know what to think about this... Either, these power companies are so dumb/incompetent, that they have these controls in public network OR this is just another propaganda effort to keep us in fear and give up ones rights/privacy.
Maybe it is just me, but those two choices doesn't sound too good. - moletimer, on 01/26/2008, -3/+90Two words: Fear. Mongering.
- jordansampson, on 01/26/2008, -3/+78And here comes the need for US regulation of the internet.
- Mahluc, on 01/26/2008, -1/+60Why don't they name the cities? Then everyone could check the veracity of their story.
- Zakalwe2, on 01/26/2008, -1/+60I love the reasoning here: "Hackers have cut off power to cities overseas. Therefore, we need to crack down on domestic freedom."
- Eivo, on 01/26/2008, -2/+56No details. No evidence. No story.
- Feawen, on 01/26/2008, -3/+53This is absolute rubbish. It didn't say where, when, how, anything.
- roberto_deneero, on 01/26/2008, -0/+43Cut Power to Entire City, Cancel or Allow?
- crunchyeyeball, on 01/26/2008, -0/+43MI5 is the UK domestic intelligence service, MI6 is the UK foreign intelligence service.
- Spuy767, on 01/26/2008, -5/+46ZOMG FIRE SALE!
- lucutus, on 01/26/2008, -1/+40Google Ted Bridis. There is a definite pattern of fear mongering propaganda if you look. "Good U.S.
corporate citizens have a responsibility to assist the FBI in criminal and
terrorism investigations." (Ted Bridis) - tim507, on 01/26/2008, -2/+40Please dont digg me down for my ignorance,...but what is the difference between ml5 and Ml6... i honestly don't know.
- pizpot, on 01/26/2008, -2/+39Folks, remember the CIA speaks "opposite." So the story probably means nothing except that they want you to keep being scared of invisible threats.
- krnldmp, on 01/26/2008, -2/+39Old people that don't use the internet will believe anything.
- MacGyver2210, on 01/26/2008, -0/+31You should've linked directly to the press release on the CIA site so that when it goes down from the Digg effect we can all be 'Terrorists' for a day.
- Scynet, on 01/26/2008, -2/+32The internet is a powerful tool, digg should know (Scientology / Ron Paul, anyone?) "Unfortunately", this power doesn't belong to the governments and private corporations like traditional media. Yet.
I'm ready to expect stories like this for a while more, after which the U.S. government pushes some hype laws against those pesky Internet hackers that are a threat to You Citizens(tm) and pushes net neutrality down the toilet.
Expect not us, but a regulated government internet in U.S and UK, for starters.. - geminitojanus, on 01/26/2008, -0/+26MI5 is Domestic (think FBI/NSA), MI6 is foreign (think CIA).
- dondara, on 01/26/2008, -3/+27Yeah, this is scare tactic *****. Details or it never happened. ***** the CIA. What kind of bitches get pwnd by script kiddies? Dumb Bitches!
- PaulPinfield, on 01/26/2008, -2/+25OK, time to call Bull *****.
"In at least one case, the disruption caused a power outage affecting multiple cities,"
I think it would be public knowledge if a whole city anywhere is the developed world lost power. So, come on then, anyone who lives in one of these cities, please speak up. Tell us when, where and how long for. Then point us to the supporting newspaper articles... - purag66, on 05/13/2009, -2/+24Remember an article a few weeks ago, here on Digg, about monitoring all emails as part of some future cyber-terrorism prevention act?
- inactive, on 01/26/2008, -0/+19The CIA is of course lying. In order to access any sort of control console for a grid node (or really anywhere on the grid, in any country) you have to be physically present at the site. It is not possible to network your way in from the internet, period. You can *monitor* a section of grid from the internet--yes. But you cannot control it.
- 955701, on 01/26/2008, -0/+19You'd be surprised. I once went along with a team at my company that pitched to analyze and demonstrate the threats to an oil company's facilities based completley on openly available information. One of our major points was that their SCADA systems had remotely accessible pumps and valves that could be commandeered to drive them entire system into an unsustainable state and cause mechanical failures.
The other half of the pitch was the physical vulnerabililty to small groups of inflitrators. We were shooed out the door. That was in 1999. Two years later the ***** hit the fan. - jordansampson, on 01/26/2008, -1/+20Im already there. The sad part is that the US feels it has the right to control anything that may impact them. If they launch a campaign to regulate the internet, it will not only be in the US. Much more far reaching impact will be felt.
On a side note, its interesting that this happens to coincide with the public displays of Anon. The chaners made a point of making it known to the media that they were going to attack CoS over the internet. Headlines such as "hackers declare war on CoS" coupled with this only fuel the need for regulation.... thanks everyone:D. Better start downloading some extra porn to sore away. - fatbert, on 01/26/2008, -3/+22I'm gonna go for incompetent. Remember five years ago when a tree falling on a single power line caused the entire northeast of the US and southeast of Canada to go dark?
- hadak, on 01/26/2008, -2/+20Sad. Spell check can't even help you.
- ampersand2001, on 01/26/2008, -3/+21it won't seem so crazy 10-15 years down the road.
- ScotchInBox, on 01/26/2008, -0/+18Not sure what's scarier - "mysterious hackers" or Facebook/Myspace/Twitter which provides the government an instant picture of all of a person's contacts, friends, where you are, what you're doing, etc.
- AlienMushroom, on 02/21/2008, -1/+18CIA's inspired by Die Hard 4
- DeusNova, on 01/26/2008, -1/+17Also, actual hackers would never do this...script kiddies would but they couldn't do that.
- Ryan0617, on 01/26/2008, -2/+17I live in the UK and they dont release statements like this. DrGizmondo you're talking BS
- 1310nm, on 01/26/2008, -1/+16Incredible. Why aren't these systems on closed, private networks?
- inactive, on 01/26/2008, -0/+14One word works for me: Sensationalizing.
- moletimer, on 01/26/2008, -0/+14not to be confused with the M5 or the M6 (motorways in the UK) :P
- fac3less, on 01/26/2008, -0/+12Because of idiots.
- KyleGoetz, on 01/26/2008, -7/+19It must be them Hackers on Steroids. ANONYMOOOOOOOOUUUUUUS!!!
- meesphht, on 01/26/2008, -3/+14I'm impressed by the awakening.
MSNBc is CIA. Did you know that? That's why they "report" this with such a magnitude of ineptitude that no credible editor would release a story like this. If cities were blacked out - it wouldn't be a "national security" issue (that's funny) so the blackout of the cities that were blacked out isn't necessary unless we're now being fed news stories from inept CIA hacks.
Those are the hacks in this story. The story itself is a hack job.
Only a congressman would believe this right before he votes for a 20,000 page bill that says "Internet Security" on the cover of it and that is the only thing in it that he read.
Did you see the debate of MSNBC? My only guess is that they (the CIA/CFR/ill-uminaties) want Romney in the chair for the next 8 years. The Dems can't win - they're scraping the bottom of the barrel as it is now.
Vote Ron Paul - maybe if he wins the Presidency the Mainstream CIA Press wil report it. - howilearned, on 01/26/2008, -3/+14I agree with you. I think that articles like these are just an excuse to get the government to give up net neutrality.
"ZOMG! Haxors r takin' over teh internets!1!!11!!one! we must restrict 2 protect!1!!" - Spuy767, on 01/26/2008, -0/+11I was referencing the lame-assed premise of "Live Free or Die Hard."
- punkrockguy, on 01/26/2008, -0/+11that is exactly what i thought when i read this!
- roberto_deneero, on 01/26/2008, -3/+14exactly and most likely if any power grid goes down it's our own Bush admin that did it. they're out to ***** us up in the name of the all mighty dollar! we're *****.
- T8erT0T, on 01/26/2008, -2/+13Geez, as if the CIA doesn't make enough money on cocaine they have to make up invisible hackers taking control of invisible cities outside the US and pay them off. For shame CIA, for shame.
- baalzebub, on 01/26/2008, -1/+12what seems utterly stupid is why are such critical systems connected to the internet anyway, it would be much more secure to just have a few employees at the power plants themselves managing the systems...
what can be hacked will be hacked, especially mission critical systems & systems that handle large sums of money (anything of value). i think governments & corporations place too much responsibility on the internet to run everything and this could be a downfall of a lot of important systems, so i will repeat myself when i think it would be wise & prudent to have a few employees handling the various mission critical systems than to just have it controlled remotely over the internet... - SonoranDragon, on 01/26/2008, -2/+13Well, we know it's not Anonymous. They've got far bigger issues on their hands right now.
- inactive, on 01/26/2008, -0/+10What the CIA doesn't realize is that the affected under-developed African cities never had power to begin with.
- pehpsi, on 01/26/2008, -2/+12The American Government CAN'T be trusted when they give information, so what makes them think people will trust them when they DON'T give any information??
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