Friday, December 02, 2011

Straight from Goebbels, government run media keeps repeating water pump hack lie


Siemens et al. don't want you to know the truth about their admitted security holes, so they've hatched a cover story that they and their FBI and DHS puppets are in a cycle of publish, pause, publish, pause, in order to stamp out the flame of truth.

I said last week they were doing it, as they were repeating their new tale over and over because doing it makes it true, right ?

It's more lies to protect more lying corporations. Now they've added vacation photos from Russia with love to the latest story. What a nice canned touch, as if photos of a family in Russia prove that the employee did what they say he did, or that it excludes spoofing alongside actual logins. They really do think that they're the smartest ones in the room because their friends or family got them government jobs.

The real story is that some people in a security role released the truth when they found out, and then retracted it under threats to protect corporate profits.

Cyberwar watchers took notice this month when a leaked intelligence memo claimed Russian hackers had remotely destroyed a water pump at an Illinois utility. The report spawned dozens of sensational stories characterizing it as the first-ever reported destruction of U.S. infrastructure by a hacker. Some described it as America’s very own Stuxnet attack.

Except, it turns out, it wasn’t. Within a week of the report’s release, DHS bluntly contradicted the memo, saying that it could find no evidence that a hack occurred. In truth, the water pump simply burned out, as pumps are wont to do, and a government-funded intelligence center incorrectly linked the failure to an internet connection from a Russian IP address months earlier.

They're falling on their sword. After ten years this is an absurd claim.

“If you can’t trust the information coming from a fusion center, what is the purpose of having the fusion center sending anything out? That’s common sense,” he said. “When you read what’s in that [report] that is a really, really scary letter. How could DHS not have put something out saying they got this [information but] it’s preliminary?”

Those are rhetorical questions that the interviewed party knows are already answered, because the government and corporate story is the lie he said it was.

I lived it in Massachusetts. I know about a capacitor bank having to be taken off-line by NSTAR for the same reasons. I was told right before it stopped. If they had been "old fashioned" hardware surges, a Lockheed spook wouldn't have been on the case from soon into it, for over a year.

They're corporate liars, and the police are bastards who will burn your house down protecting them in case they can get a job with them on retirement.

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