Washington Post Retracts Its Fake News Story About Russian Hacking Power Grid

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  1. Ken Anderson

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    After trying to do so little by little, through changes made to its story online, the Washington Post finally retracted its news story about the Russian hacking the power grid.

    The truth of the story was evident early on but, of course, they had to let the fake news lead the headlines and broadcasts news reports for a couple of days before retracting it.

    As I said earlier, there was one lap top at the power company. It wasn't connected to grid, and it hadn't been hacked. There was some malware code on it that may have been there for years, since malware cleaners don't always erase every bit of the code, often simply rendering it inactive.

    The malware was produced in Russia, but probably not by the Russian government. More significantly, it has been for sale online for years, so it could have gotten on that laptop from anywhere. It wasn't even new code, and it wasn't specific to the power grid or to anyone. It was just malware that could have been picked up on a website, since sites like game and porn sites are frequently infested with malware, or someone's kid might have installed something. Who knows, but it doesn't really matter because it was fake news.

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    I should like to believe that the U.S. Power Grid is adequately protected to prevent any major tampering. This could (and probably has been) implemented by interspersing major non-computer-controlled switches between the largest inter-ties in nation-wide power distribution. These "obsolete" controls would function to prevent shut-down of extensive installation via computer-generated interference. At least I HOPE our leaders employ proven and reliable sources to achieve this. But, bear in mind those government-employed contractors employed in the Middle East and elsewhere, may have been infiltrated with subversives of their own. In the days of the Manhattan Project, for example, even though contracts were "let" to minor producers of various components, control over the actual work remained under strict, unmitigated FBI control. Thank Gen. Leslie R. Groves for that, I suppose. His prescience may be considered most worthwhile during the development of the Bomb, as having limited espionage against us to at least the level at which it existed, which as was learned, was damned regrettable.

    Back then, high security information was delivered by human courier, those being highly screened beforehand. Today, any A.H. having enough technical "smarts" may be able to "tune in" to various security-sensitive areas and report results to others, even smarter, who can use the info against us. Us reads "U.S."
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    Washington Post Admits Their “Russian Hacking” Story is Fake News

     
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