This US has publicly threatened ‘retaliatory’ hacks against Russia for weeks now, based on allegations that Russia may have been involved in certain hacks related to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Russia denied involvement and the US government has been unable to produce any concrete evidence of Russian involvement.
Vice President Joe Biden went so far as to confirm the US had informed Vladimir Putin that the US would conduct revenge attacks “at the time of our choosing.” The time may ultimately be America’s election day, according to officials familiar with the situation.
NBC News has reported seeing top secret documents from these officials detailing potential US plans to launch military cyber attacks against Russia’s civilian infrastructure, with the documents claiming advanced US cyber weapons were prepared to take down Russia’s entire electricity grid, all telecommunications networks, and the Kremlin’s own command systems.
The reports are emerging in the context of US officials speculating that Russia might launch cyber attacks against the US during the election to try to disrupt it. Since they offered no evidence for this either, it raises concerns that the US is simply setting up a pretext for timing its own attacks around them.
That officials are trying to assure the media that such huge attacks would only be launched in retaliation offers little comfort, given the administration’s willingness to claim anything and everything remotely election-related and embarrassing to the Clinton campaign as a Russian plot.
Such massive US attacks on Russian infrastructure, regardless of the pretext, would likely be seen as an act of war. The US has made clear in the past they would regard cyber attacks of a large enough scale as equivalent to conventional military attacks, and given the scale that it being discussed it’s hard to imagine Russia would not react similarly.
Idiotic! Putin knows, as does Biden, that the US elections are rigged and meaningless regarding foreign policy. He’s not bothered by the crude farce. He also knows, but Biden may not, that US infrastructure is far more vulnerable to cyber attack than Russia’s.
They will go this far to keep pushing Hillary’s exposed secrets as a “Russian Plot”? God help us all.
More pathetic propaganda agitating a bogeyman without any concrete evidence and now pitiful warmongering threats… No wonder why the US is considered the biggest threat to peace in the world.
These are the maniacs telling us that Trump is not suited to be president. Unbelievable.
“take down Russia’s entire electricity grid, all telecommunications networks, and the Kremlin’s own command systems”
Makes no sense. Russia would very likely see this as preparation for an imminent first strike attack. How does “a few SS-18 down the smokestack” sound in Washington?
US maniacs might just get us all killed.
What we know from recent history (all history) is it is easier to break something than it is to make it, or to fix it (Iraq. Libya, Somalia etc.). After the US has broken Russia and Russia has broken the US in return, who is the “winner”?
A necessary first step to this enterprise is to rename DOD the “Department of Offence” since is does not possess even the hypothetical capacity to defend the US from either a cyber attack or a massive nuclear strike.
For those worried about Trump, we have had an idiot for VP for 8 years and that hasn’t killed us (yet).
Hard to believe that lives 330 million people will be offered for sacrifice so one crooked old hag can get what she wants. Helen of Troy was at least beautiful.
Empty words.The USA is unable(not unwilling) to carry successfully such a massive attack.But it might be that Russia will have its own surprise for the bellicose USA.
” . . . paranoia runs deep/into your life it will creep . . .” that old song in my head, more likely it’s the FBI doing the leaking?? And just more pathetic smoke blowing to cover your ass.
It’s tough for me to understand the degree of recklessness, puffing and posturing we see coming from the “0′ crew…. What can be the rational for such dangerous provocations: they don’t want to look weak….??? Also, this STINKS like Tonkin, Iraq…. probably an engineered false information crisis…. the Neocon trademarked MO. So we are left to hope there arn’t more reckless moves or accidents… Nuclear war has becum just another boogeyman for this crew, to be brought out anytime they think it can advantage them… Could Trump be worse… than these shallow power opportunists we now have with their finger on the future of the planet….?????????? I dont think.so, but I am willing to concede that I could be wrong…. For the survival of life… we need to end the two party system.
There is another possibility: Maybe these ‘retaliatory’ threats against Russia are really about insuring that, should such an attack occur in the United States, Russia is perceived as responsible regardless of who actually carried them out.
It has become apparent that American officials are not assessing what the Russian retaliatory response could be properly. They assume it would affect American infrastructure, or the broad population, when in reality, the response could specifically target individuals who are responsible.
Special prosecutor needed to fry the official who showed NBC the top secret documents!
In reading this article, is there any doubt left that the US regime has become completely unhinged!? Such an attack – based on complete conjecture – is not only breathtakingly stupid, but WOULD be a clear ‘Act of War’ against Russia which – of course – would see a Russian retaliation.
More fear mongering for what is left if any freedom in America. Wake up SHEEPLE! Jul 28, 2016 DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge: What Is Capture the Flag?
“Capture the Flag” is a game played by both children and hackers. But whereas children look for flags hidden in their opponents’ forts, hackers look for software flaws hidden in previously unexplored code. Every year at the DEF CON conference, the world’s best hackers meet to test their hacking skills against each other.
https://youtu.be/qSgYu3w3DMM
Aug 2, 2011 U.S. government hankers for hackers
WASHINGTON, Aug 2 The National Security Agency has a challenge for hackers who think they’re hot stuff: prove it by working on the “hardest problems on Earth.”
Computer hacker skills are in great demand in the U.S. government to fight the cyber wars that pose a growing national security threat — and they are in short supply.
For that very reason an alphabet soup of federal agencies
— DOD, DHS, NASA, NSA — are descending on Las Vegas this week — DOD, DHS, NASA, NSA — are descending on Las Vegas this week for Defcon, an annual hacker convention where the $150 entrance fee is cash only — no registration, no credit cards, no names taken. Attendance is expected to top 10,000.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/02/idUSN1E7701KK20110802
Internet security anybody?
Biden’s mouth is writing checks his ass can’t cash.
F’ing idiots in DC. Totally unhinged. If as promised, the Hill and Bill return to Penn.ave., it will be swiftly the last chance for all of humanity to kiss life on this planet goodbye forever, along with all of the furniture and silverware that those two miserable greedy theiving wretches tried to make off with last time.
This is an empty threat.Russia’s cyber system is very well protected.If the USA could carry such an attack they would have done it immediately.The USA is more and more a paper tiger.
I hope you are right. Our lives might depend on it.
Will be very interesting to see how the Russian Perimetr Dead Hand system reacts to such a reckless strategy by the brain dead americans, if this attack really takes place.
Could this be how the next world war will start, by a cyber first strike? While everyone is looking for a WW2 type action like a plane downed to start it might it start where we are blind-sighted?