Foreign hackers targeted U.S. water plant in apparent malicious cyber attack, expert says.
On Nov. 8, a municipal water district employee in Illinois noticed problems with the city’s water pump control system, and a technician determined the system had been remotely hacked into from a computer located in Russia, said Joe Weiss, an industry security expert who obtained a copy of an Illinois state fusion center report describing the incident.
Water. You want to see chaos, take water out of the picture. This is serious.
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November 18, 2011 at 8:44 pm
These are the same Russians who are building a nuclear Iran while contributng to the destruction of the USA via operations like OWS.
November 19, 2011 at 8:17 pm
I’ll tell ya Mary, if it isn’t one thing…it’s something else. No quiet time for the citizens.
November 18, 2011 at 9:56 pm
Australian Obama say:
“Drink lots more water you dumb, lazy Americans!”
You know he did!
November 18, 2011 at 11:48 pm
He’s bound and determined to destroy us, even if it mrans poisoning the watere
November 19, 2011 at 8:18 pm
He’s such a jerk. The man should talk. All he wants to do is hit the golf course.
November 19, 2011 at 5:19 am
Makes me glad I have a well- and a generator.
November 19, 2011 at 8:22 pm
Do you have enough gasoline to run the generator? I hope so, I’m coming over.
November 20, 2011 at 6:44 am
Oh Yes mcnorman. We have quite a few gas cans. We rotate the gas into the vehicles and fresh in to the cans so we don’t end up with old, unusable gas.
In a pinch, if the shit hits the fan, we could run the generator for about ten minutes to get enough water for the days needs for drinking for us and the animals and basic washing up. If the horse came back it would take a bit more.
We also always keep numerous water containers on hand, Especially in winter when we can lose power to storms. Any restaurant will let you take their empty fryer grease jugs. Wash them out really well of course. They are quite sturdy- but one will give us a full day supply of water for us and the animals- including the horse if she were here.
We can make do with less food, and forage during the spring, summer and fall- even could hunt in the winter with the never ending supply of deer, turkey, rabbits and other small game and fowl. But water? Must have water. Can not be wasting time and energy trying to locate a safe source of potable water.
November 20, 2011 at 9:39 am
If you want to screw with humans, take the water supply away. Horrible, horrible things that humans will do. I’m happy to hear that you are ready for anything. Of course, the rural areas of the country learn how not to rely on convenience, something that the big cities are clueless over. I think Californians are prepared for the short term because they are constantly being hit with earthquakes. Floridians are the same because of hurricanes, but many are not.
November 20, 2011 at 10:32 am
That is a very interesting idea. Of what are the jugs made? Are they stainless steel, like that in which tinned oil comes? That would be really handy.
Right now, we get our drinking water from a fountain at a state park that draws on artesian water. We go out every week with a bunch of old milk jugs and take it back home and transfer it in some glass jugs, but they are unfortunately not such large containers, nor stackable, so they have to stay out in the shed. We keep a large copper basin in case we have to let the water sit a day before drinking (I’ve read good quality silver coin or wire can also act as an antimicrobial when put in a storage vessel but I have never tried this). If I was really worried about it I’d add a couple of drops of clorox— all those fancy water purifying tablets have some kind of chlorine in them, they are just clorox— and let it sit overnight, but we’ve never had to do that yet. The few power outages or length we’ve had the water still worked fine.
November 19, 2011 at 5:42 pm
I just heard a report on the radio this afternoon that there are places in Texas that have only a few days worth of water in their supply. That is very scary. I’ll try to find a link.
November 19, 2011 at 8:25 pm
leslie, it has been horrible. Today was shorts weather here. There is no moisture in sight. We usually don’t get any rain until the spring. sigh
November 21, 2011 at 10:09 am
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/20/as-drought-continues-depleted-texas-lakes-expose-ghost-towns-graves/
November 19, 2011 at 6:06 pm
Our “government” blew up the Great Manmade River that was the water supply of over 4 million people. It dumps without regard to water supplies cluster bombs and white phosphorus and depleted uranium around the freaking globe. Nor yet does it treat its own people very well: the fluoride put in our drinking water comes from industrial waste, it permits the injection of toxic chemicals into underground water supplies in order to make money pumping gas and oil and from mining. It even plans to pass a tarsands oil pipeline through our own nation’s greatest water supply, the Ogalalla Aquifer, for the benefit of the fucking Chinese: that is a hell of a lot scarier than one little water plant going briefly offline.
In the first place our “government” lies about everything. In the second place, even if the attack really did come from Russia, at this point we don’t know if this was the Russian government or some kid hacker. It’s way too soon to be drawing any but the broadest conclusions.
I’m betting that once again the msm is lying through its teeth because we’re having a tantrum abut Russia not wanting us/NATO to start another war (Syria). that seems a whole lot more probable than that the Russians have suddenly gone insane.
November 19, 2011 at 7:09 pm
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0808-07.htm
November 20, 2011 at 8:42 am
thanks, Nom. I had conveniently forgotten this. It enraged me at the time, and now even more than before. I’m glad you held onto this.
November 20, 2011 at 9:40 am
It’s a very good link.
November 20, 2011 at 9:53 am
I’ve always wondered how anyone could doubt that people who could do this to anyone else could do it to us.
November 20, 2011 at 9:51 am
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8897662/EU-bans-claim-that-water-can-prevent-dehydration.html
This is really not from the Onion: EU bans labels on water bottles stating that water rehydrates you. This was the next step in their war on supplements and natural health.
One day
in the not too distant future maybewe the people will be strapped to our beds and fitted with an iv so that they can force feed us their gmo-chemical-vat-foodlike-yes-the-food-part-is-a-stretch-substances.Crap, I know! They’ll run a line from our tvs or computers (once they’ve got control of the internet) so they can brainwash us and feed us at the same time!
November 20, 2011 at 9:58 am
Nom, you really should write a screenplay. Forget about the blogs, I think there is some good money waiting to be made.
November 23, 2011 at 10:24 am
http://www.prisonplanet.com/feds-admit-water-pump-failure-was-not-cyber-attack.html
Feds admit water pump failure not cyber attack. Such a surprise!
November 23, 2011 at 8:30 pm
Very interesting.