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- Independent: Trump administration escalates cyber-attacks on Russian power grid as warning to Putin - Sinister Burt June 17, 2019, 10:27 am
- They're playing chicken with Russia - are they totaly insane? nm - CJ June 17, 2019, 4:44 pm
- An important question not raised by NYT: so the US could easily have done Venezuela: - CJ June 17, 2019, 5:57 pm
- They're playing chicken with Russia - are they totaly insane? nm - CJ June 17, 2019, 4:44 pm
Posted by CJ
on June 17, 2019, 5:57 pm, in reply to "Independent: Trump administration escalates cyber-attacks on Russian power grid as warning to Putin"
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https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/06/us-cyber-attack-on-russias-power-grid-is-an-act-of-war-according-to-the-us/ " Many people probably assumed that the idea of the US using cyber tool to bring down a country’s power grid was science fiction, or a paranoid fantasy. But now we know it’s reality. If the Pentagon’s Cyber Command has the capability to plant remote-controlled cyber weapons in the software of Russia’s power grid computer systems, it certainly has the capability of using them to bring down the power grid of a Third World country like Venezuela. But such an act of sabotage and war has deadly consequences. When Venezuela was out of electricity, hospitals were without power, street lights no longer functioned, frail old people were left in darkness where they were at risk of deadly falls, people in multi-story apartment buildings were without elevators and forced to use dark stairwells to go to and from their apartments, and water, which relies on pumps to reach faucets, became scarce. The list of risks to life and health are endless. If the victims of such an attack were added up, I’m sure it would be staggering. .... It’s important to know, which we now do, that our country is at war with Russia in cyberspace. But we need to know too that cyberwars have real flesh-and-blood victims, and that the cyberwar the US almost certainly launched against Venezuela earlier this spring is also underway and killing innocent people." cheers |
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