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2021-05-11 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Pumps run dry on day five of Colonial Pipeline cyber attack: Cars line up outside stations across the South and American Airlines is forced to add refuel stop to long haul flights as gas prices near seven-year high
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Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-11 10:25|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 'It's an act of war against America ': Newt Gingrich calls for Biden to 'order KILLING' of those behind Colonial Pipeline hack
Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-11 10:27||   2021-05-11 10:27|| Front Page Top

#2 The Russian economy and government budget is dependent on the Siberian oil and gas pipelines. What sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Posted by Omaiter Sinatra6457 2021-05-11 10:41||   2021-05-11 10:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Putin's cyber soldiers: DarkSide hackers who hit America's biggest fuel pipeline started eight months ago in Russia where they're given free rein to target the West and have already been paid millions by 80 companies
Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-11 10:42||   2021-05-11 10:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Who else is is being held to ransom? Hackers 'launched cyberattacks on more than 24 other companies' after they had shut down the Colonial Pipeline
Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-11 10:43||   2021-05-11 10:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Putin - 1
Joe/Hunter/Ukraine/Burisma/USA - 0
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-05-11 10:47||   2021-05-11 10:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Cancelling the Keystone, brilliant foking move.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-11 11:06||   2021-05-11 11:06|| Front Page Top

#7 #1, Gingrich has a point. You'd think that if the FBI really knows who dunnit then a big, powerful, world class operation like the CIA could arrange some wet work in the, uh, "Eastern European" country where the attack supposedly originated.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-05-11 11:28||   2021-05-11 11:28|| Front Page Top

#8 The Russian economy and government budget is dependent on the Siberian oil and gas pipelines. What sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

But I bet Putin knows better than to let critical infrastructure operators connect their computers to the internet.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-05-11 11:32||   2021-05-11 11:32|| Front Page Top

#9 
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-05-11 11:41||   2021-05-11 11:41|| Front Page Top

#10 Doing. nothing meaningful about a series of gas shortages serves their climate change agenda perfectly. The Bidet/Kalorama Central Committee people see themselves as revolutionary rulers not public servants. Anything that drives people to abandon private vehicles for the workers paradise of the hive cities is a glorious revolutionary victory for the proletariat. In a sane world, this would just be humorous sarcasm
Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-05-11 12:36||   2021-05-11 12:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Let me get this right: these are all Southern States, right?

New England, Great Lakes all OK?
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-05-11 12:45||   2021-05-11 12:45|| Front Page Top

#12 Abu, the FBI is too busy looking for people who might have been near the Capital Jan 6 to spend time on stuff like computer terrorism.
Posted by Glenmore 2021-05-11 13:38||   2021-05-11 13:38|| Front Page Top

#13  Let me get this right: these are all Southern States, right?

Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-11 13:44||   2021-05-11 13:44|| Front Page Top

#14 Thank you Skid.

Does PA not do gasoline?
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-05-11 14:15||   2021-05-11 14:15|| Front Page Top

#15 

North Augusta Murphy at Wally World went dry for Regular about 1 1/2 hr. ago.

Price was at $2.89 up 40cents from last Thursday.
Augusta Ga. is Selling at $2.99+ for 87 octane.

Like the TP Panic with every idiot buying more than needed and filling a number of just purchased Red plastic Gas containers.

Wait for it
NEWS at 6 "Crash with 50 Gal in the car".

NOW FOR A QUESTION.
Any one hear the comments made by the Sec. Energy and Deputy Cyber security advisor yesterday on Bloomberg's "Balance of Power"
May 10th, at the 25 mark to 50 mins area.

Did it sound like they were hinting at greater Government oversight / control / Monitoring SPYING of the INet for the US-Gov and the Private sector?


Posted by NN2N1 2021-05-11 14:40||   2021-05-11 14:40|| Front Page Top

#16 One might wonder if this was allowed to happen in order to setup the battlefield for 'BidenCare' of our Oil Industry (meaning the nationalization of our Oil Industry - you know to insure it's safe from Harm!).
They did it with Healthcare. Setup a crisis, then use it to take over the industry.
Never let a crisis go to waste!
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-05-11 15:01||   2021-05-11 15:01|| Front Page Top

#17 Tough when your own state doesn't have one of them NIMBY cracking plants.

You know trucking the stuff in has a limit in range when moving it takes more than what you can carry.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-05-11 15:03||   2021-05-11 15:03|| Front Page Top

#18 I agree with Newt. The question is just exactly 'who' hates America quite that much. Or more colloquially, is the cal coming from inside the house?
Posted by Cesare 2021-05-11 15:23||   2021-05-11 15:23|| Front Page Top

#19 Is this part of the green new deal? /sarc
Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-11 15:38||   2021-05-11 15:38|| Front Page Top

#20 ^ That's a legitimate question
Posted by Rex Mundi 2021-05-11 15:44||   2021-05-11 15:44|| Front Page Top

#21 Bumper Sticker from the 70's I saw in Oklahoma: "Don't like Refineries? Freeze in the Dark!"
Posted by magpie 2021-05-11 16:34||   2021-05-11 16:34|| Front Page Top

#22 Darkside is a criminal entity.

However, I don't understand why Colonial Pipeline didn't have multiple buffers between their critical information and the internet.

As I understand it, others who operate critical facilities, e.g., nuclear power plants, keep the operating system of the plants walled off (actually two and three walls off) from the employees email.
Posted by Lord Garth 2021-05-11 16:37||   2021-05-11 16:37|| Front Page Top

#23 Shutting down the construction of the XL pipeline has got to be one of the worst strategic policy decisions ever made.

Posted by JohnQC 2021-05-11 17:28||   2021-05-11 17:28|| Front Page Top

#24 JQC - that would depend on your strategy...
Posted by Glenmore  2021-05-11 17:41||   2021-05-11 17:41|| Front Page Top

#25 More than four years were spent trying to sabotage the DJT administration to the exclusion of everything else.
Posted by JohnQC 2021-05-11 17:46||   2021-05-11 17:46|| Front Page Top

#26 Glad I'm not the only skeptic.

The "They are a private company so we don't want to get involved" line is the most un-Big Government line they could throw. It makes me think:

-They are involved in some way, or
-They have been utterly defeated by a hack

Lady Gaga's dog has been stolen!
US Government - We're totally on it.

A hack closed gasoline to 1/4 of the United States!
Whoah, totally a private matter.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-05-11 18:21||   2021-05-11 18:21|| Front Page Top

#27 Hoarders are making things worse, filling up anything that will hold gas.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2021-05-11 19:14||   2021-05-11 19:14|| Front Page Top

#28 Hope this gives Biden another a stroke.
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-05-11 21:29||   2021-05-11 21:29|| Front Page Top

#29 In other pipeline news, Gretchen "Lizard Queen" Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, is shutting down the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline that runs thru Michigan. The Canadians are miffed and residents of the Upper Peninsula are wondering where their propane will come from. Line 5 carries ~500,000 barrels of fuel per day.
Posted by SteveS 2021-05-11 21:41||   2021-05-11 21:41|| Front Page Top

#30 ^ what an evil nasty cvnt
Posted by Harcourt Elmeling5523 2021-05-11 23:44||   2021-05-11 23:44|| Front Page Top

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