Trump Orders Preparation for Electric Grid Cyber Attacks

[livingston]

Trump Orders Preparation for Electric Grid Cyber Attacks
President Trump ordered the federal government to prepare for a devastating cyber attack against America's electric grid amid growing fears foreign states are set to carry out attacks aimed at plunging the nation into darkness.

A presidential order signed Thursday directed key federal agencies to assess preparations for a prolonged power outage resulting from cyber attacks designed to disrupt the power grid.

An assessment of the danger must be carried out by the Energy Department, Homeland Security, DNI and state and local governments to examine the readiness of the United State to manage a shutdown of the power grid. The assessment will also identify gaps and shortcomings in efforts that would be used restore power.

Trump Orders Preparation for Electric Grid Cyber Attacks

 

[Bananabandit]

Trump wants to cyber?

A/S/L?

 

[Podmonkey]

I hope any such action by any such foreign power would be considered an act of war. I'm fine with a retaliatory EMP attack.

 

[Frankly]

It's been the number one most likely scenario for years now, not to mention that solar flares can do the same thing. I think should be a national priority just like the border wall.

Washington: hmm hee haw thumbs up their asses playing with their tiny brains.

 

[Catskillkid]

It's been the number one most likely scenario for years now, not to mention that solar flares can do the same thing. I think should be a national priority just like the border wall.

Washington: hmm hee haw thumbs up their asses playing with their tiny brains.

Agreed. When bird poop can temporarily shut down a nuclear reactor you know we have a problem. Solar flares, EMP attack, and hacking can all do the same thing.

Having the lights go out for a day or two is typically no big deal. A lot of folks even turn it into a party. After that though, things begin to get a little hairy (remember New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina).

 

[Frankly]

Agreed. When bird poop can temporarily shut down a nuclear reactor you know we have a problem. Solar flares, EMP attack, and hacking can all do the same thing.

Having the lights go out for a day or two is typically no big deal. A lot of folks even turn it into a party. After that though, things begin to get a little hairy (remember New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina).

Remember Joplin, Missouri which suffered considerably worse damage than New Orleans but the people didn't kill and loot or demand handouts. Instead they rebuilt the place better than new less than a year later. When a natural disaster hits hard working middle class Americans they can overcome practically anything.

But dats racyst

 

[Deplorable Me]

Damn it. I can only hoard so much ammo.

 

[JaguarJaguarGolf]

Adm. Rogers testified to Congress last week and said something along the lines that if we suffer a cyber attack we must get away from the practice that our response would be limited to a cyber counter-attack. We must play to our strengths.

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

As a country we are idiots if we don't take this threat seriously.

An enemy taking our grid down in any number of fashions can cause billions to trillions in economic damage and can be accomplished in so many ways..

This is so much more important to put our funding towards than all the other stupid shit we piss away. If we spend many millions on gender studies, bathroom studies, economic wage gaps, endangered amphibians no one has ever heard of before, and many other stupid causes and willfully ignore our grid, we will deserve what we get.

Our politicians are too busy whoring out our tax resources and wealth on their stupid pet projects to win votes to benefit their careers. Not in what is doing the right thing and what's best for most Americans.

 

[nfernaays]

Let's hope the rest of Washington takes this seriously...but i doubt it!

 

[FrankenCub]

Remember Joplin, Missouri which suffered considerably worse damage than New Orleans but the people didn't kill and loot or demand handouts. Instead they rebuilt the place better than new less than a year later. When a natural disaster hits hard working middle class Americans they can overcome practically anything.

But dats racyst

Although I like and agree with your statement, Joplin is a whole world different than when half the country goes black. Had that tornado wrecked Chicago, the result would have also been completely different.

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

Although I like and agree with your statement, Joplin is a whole world different than when half the country goes black. Had that tornado wrecked Chicago, the result would have also been completely different.

I think a lot of it is, well ill put it this way, demographics and moral compass.

 

[FrankenCub]

I think a lot of it is, well ill put it this way, demographics and moral compass.

All of this country having huge pockets of dysfunctional moral compasses will spill over into the rest of the countryside unfortunately. Is it sick of me to be a bit excited to want to watch the mayhem liberalism will bring upon us when half the country goes black?
I don't know, I just want to kick back with a cold beer or 6 and observe lol. Watch the regressives destroy their home cities, fight amongst each other and slowly kill each other off for the possession of what they feel is power, all the while greed making them unknowingly weak.

 

[ArmedCorgi]

Is this telling of something afoot? I know there have been many experts talking and publishing on this threat to our country, but has any other president ordered this sort of thing? Personally, this is what I am most afraid of and feel is the most likely disaster to hit us. @FrankenCub, I share in your sentiment to a degree, but I fear how things would go overall. I feel like communities will either come together or rip each other apart with lawlessness and feudalism.

 

[FrankenCub]

Is this telling of something afoot? I know there have been many experts talking and publishing on this threat to our country, but has any other president ordered this sort of thing? Personally, this is what I am most afraid of and feel is the most likely disaster to hit us. @FrankenCub, I share in your sentiment to a degree, but I fear how things would go overall. I feel like communities will either come together or rip each other apart with lawlessness and feudalism.

That's part of what I'm not sure of. Many experts have weighed in on this over the years multiple times, and it's always been taken as mediocre worries. No president that I recall has ever done more basically mention that upgrades are needed. I think Odumbo had passing mention of it and Bush2 may have said something of it, but I don't remember for sure. It could be that we finally have a President that is taking the concerns of experts seriously, or maybe a combination of that and knowing that the intelligence community has heard chatter about a coming attack.

The community deal, well, I feel both will happen. The communities that have good ties with each other no matter demographics, will bond together and make the best of it knowing they NEED to depend on each other. Other communities, like Chicago, will go down in flames, which I couldn't care less about. Even when the lawless and morally corrupt gain power over what's left, they will turn on each other with diminishing returns. When what's left of them venture out, the communities with stronger moral ties will push them back. Even though I may have a dark view on things I do have a positive outlook on the overall end of things. There are millions of people willing to do dark things to ensure the moral high ground is upheld.

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

On Tucker the other night he ran a spot about the growing threat of a North Korean EMP attack

Fears growing over N. Korea ability to launch EMP attacks

 

[C3D]

EMP attack is a terrifying possibility especially if preceded/accompanied by cyberattacks and kinetic attacks.


Metcalf sniper attack - Wikipedia


No place in NY would be survivable for long, including those who think they are safe in upstate rural areas. When 18 million New Yorkers go hungry they will be a plague of locusts on everything.

 

[ArmedCorgi]

EMP attack is a terrifying possibility especially if preceded/accompanied by cyberattacks and kinetic attacks.


Metcalf sniper attack - Wikipedia


No place in NY would be survivable for long, including those who think they are safe in upstate rural areas. When 18 million New Yorkers go hungry they will be a plague of locusts on everything.

Just another reason to bring back the mountain lion.

 

[Snappo]

No place in NY would be survivable for long, including those who think they are safe in upstate rural areas. When 18 million New Yorkers go hungry they will be a plague of locusts on everything.

Meh - I call bullshit on that position with regard to any zombie apocalypse (EMP, nukes, government collapse, etc). My view is that the New Yorkers living in the boroughs will head to CT long before making the 250 mile trek to Upstate NY where we are. Nobody can walk 250 miles after the EMP hits. They won't make it 25% of that length before they get killed or chained up and put in slavery on farms. And if a few make it up here - I would put them in chains once they got near my property and have them tilling fields. I have a few hundred acres of fields that could use crop hands, and lots of neighbors who also own farms. We are all heavily armed up here on the mountain and a slave held at rifle point runs on a lot less diesel than a Deere and can live just from rabbits, racoons, and some of the crops. And if they die, just go get some more.