Washington Post Published Fake News Story About a Vermont Utility Getting Hacked by Russians

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sounds menacing right? By the looks of it, the Russians were quickly working their vodka driven ways towards shutting down all of our lights, Christmas tree included. The only problem with this narrative is that it's a complete fabrication.

Here is the statement from Burlington Electric.


In other words, a single laptop, not connected to the grid whatsoever, had malware on it -- likely from purveying porn sites, and Washpo published an alarmist story suggesting the entire grid was at risk of becoming the bitch to malicious Russian hackers. What the fuck?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-31/

 

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Be interesting to know how many NSA back doors are in the critical infrastructure.

Imagine of Snowden had been a real mole instead of a whistle-blower and just turned all the NSA backdoor keys over instead....