This week we were informed
that Chinese hackers could disable the United States Power Grid and paralyze
the American economy. The following
extract came from The Inquisitr Online.
The Inquisitr November 20, 2014
NSA Director Says Chinese Cyber Hackers Can Shut Down U.S. Power Grid
NSA Director Michael Rogers says that Chinese cyber hackers can shut
down the power grid in the United States
and essentially end life as we know it in America. According to the federal
official, China
and “one or two” other countries are capable of launching cyberattacks that terminate the
ability of the power grid to function and shut down other “critical systems”
nationwide.
The real possibility of massive and devastating power grid
cyberattacks has long been discussed by both national security experts and the
five million prepper families in the United States ,
but has not officially been confirmed by a “top cyber official” in the federal
government until now. Former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet
Napolitano said, not long after leaving office, that a cyberattack on the power
grid was a matter of “when,” not “if.”
During a House Intelligence Committee hearing, NSA Director Michael Rogers
said “adversaries” of the United
States are currently engaging in “electronic
reconnaissance” on a regular basis. Such activities are being conducted in
order to ensure that China
and other adversarial nations are “in a position to disrupt the industrial
control systems” such as the power grid, which enable food and medication
delivery and allow chemical facilities and water treatment plants to function.
The NSA director also said, “All of that leads me to believe it is
only a matter of when, not if, we are going to see something dramatic. [In
cyberspace] You can literally do almost anything you want, and there is not a
price to pay for it.”
What is wrong with this picture? On May 21, 2001, nearly four months BEFORE
the tragic 9-11 terrorist attack on the World
Trade Center
at a News Conference at the National Press Center
in Washington , D.C.
a new company announced a cyber security system that could block any cyber
attack on our power grid and any other critical digital operations in America .
Who was the first client of Invicta Networks, the new company, the NSA. So this week, 13 years later, NSA admits we have no
defense for our power grid from a cyber attack.
Yet 13 years ago, they were testing a system that could protect our
power grid. What happened?
Special briefings were presented to the top cyber
officials in the White House, Pentagon, and Intelligence agencies including the
cyber czars like Richard A. Clarke for President Bush and President Obama.
In the time since 9-11 our government spent
billions and billions of dollars on cyber security to protect the economy,
banks, the power grid, classified government data bases and who knows what
else. Yet in the past year hackers have
stolen over 500 million credit card, banking and phone records of our citizens. Some protection.
The same ineffective computer security companies
that dominated the Internet in 2001 dominate the Internet in 2014 except many
have been acquired by giant defense contractors. So the same companies that control the most
powerful weapons systems in the world also dominate cyber security in the
world. Do you feel more secure as a
result?
Certainly the systems are not
working if NSA says we are vulnerable.
Contrary to what NSA said, China is not
the only threat. There are Russian
hackers, former Russian KGB and now Russian mob hackers, hackers from the Netherlands ,
the independent group Anonymous and of course employees and contractors for our
very own intelligence agencies (remember Edward Snowden and NSA).
Congress should investigate why the White House
national security advisors and USA
intelligence agencies ignored solutions to our problems over the years and
blocked companies like Invicta from protecting American assets. Perhaps the true extent of our deception has
not been discovered.
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