FBI: Chinese Hackers Preparing to Launch Massive Attack on U.S. Infrastructure

[Coal Dragger]

It baffles me that we allow critical infrastructure in this country to have computer systems controlling operations where those computers are online at all. No “air gap” whatsoever. Gotta improve productivity by automation as much as possible.

Security measures consist of lame ass Authenticator Apps, and making employees change passwords all the time. The only thing this accomplishes is ass pain for employees and job security for various IT desks.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

It baffles me that we allow critical infrastructure in this country to have computer systems controlling operations where those computers are online at all. No “air gap” whatsoever. Gotta improve productivity by automation as much as possible.

Security measures consist of lame ass Authenticator Apps, and making employees change passwords all the time. The only thing this accomplishes is ass pain for employees and job security for various IT desks.

Forcing changes to passwords and not mandating, the use of randomly generated ones, just helps to train the AI to learn what the possible passwords will be.

If you take Covid as a model for their use of weaponization of things, we are facing some kind of apocalyptic breakdown of our infrastructure, instead, they would just screw with it enough to piss everybody off, and allow us to play politics with it, rather than face the external threat.

[Alpha-17]

Oh abso-fvcking-lutely they would. But it won't be an "October Surprise", it'll be literally right before the election so there's no time to fix the outages. Of course that will take front and center and a week or two later they'll announce that "Despite the adversity the vote continued on through the disaster! These heroic election workers! Oh, BTW, Biden won again this time with 100 million votes! It's amazing!"

Bingo. Glad someone has been paying attention.

The media will back up the narrative, people will grumble, but in the end folks will go "well, ah shucks. Guess we'll try again in 4 years! That's how you fix the problem."

Definition of insanity.

[flenna]

If you take Covid as a model for their use of weaponization of things, we are facing some kind of apocalyptic breakdown of our infrastructure, instead, they would just screw with it enough to piss everybody off, and allow us to play politics with it, rather than face the external threat.

Bingo, this is our government in a nutshell. Our government will just take it as an opportunity to tighten the screws on the American citizens.

[Diamondback]

It baffles me that we allow critical infrastructure in this country to have computer systems controlling operations where those computers are online at all. No “air gap” whatsoever. Gotta improve productivity by automation as much as possible.

Security measures consist of lame ass Authenticator Apps, and making employees change passwords all the time. The only thing this accomplishes is ass pain for employees and job security for various IT desks.

This. I mean, I'm a mere historian and I've had clients require that I airgap their data, why can't .gov's and megacorps get it?