East coast gas shortage

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe Biden had DarkSide do this to speed up the move to electric cars by the populous.

Perhaps, but the electrical grid is also vulnerable to hacking as well.

The lessons learned from this should be
1. Fortify security on critical infrastructure (this has been true forever).
2. Build robustness in critical infrastructure- our energy CANNOT depend on gas alone. Or electric alone. Or wind alone. Or nuclear alone. This is true on a national level and a personal one- If something is necessary, there has to be a backup and possibly a backup to a backup and a plan for how to mitigate problems when crisis arises.

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I'm SO GLAD that the crises currently facing our country are external and not CREATED BY THE PRESIDENT.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting article about it:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/a-closer-look-at-the-darkside-ransomware-gang/

Thanks for posting this. I had the thought -- and one of the commenters in that post expressed the same sentiment -- that these cyber-criminals are very much like the old-time pirates. They had their moment in the sun, but because they were f**king with the cash flow of governments and big business, extreme measures were used to deal with them. I won't be surprised if we see some executions in the next 20 years.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting article about it:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/a-closer-look-at-the-darkside-ransomware-gang/

Thanks for posting this. I had the thought -- and one of the commenters in that post expressed the same sentiment -- that these cyber-criminals are very much like the old-time pirates. They had their moment in the sun, but because they were f**king with the cash flow of governments and big business, extreme measures were used to deal with them. I won't be surprised if we see some executions in the next 20 years.

Pretty sure these are state actors.

But it shows what happens when you trust private industry to institute security. Solar winds was also a private company with the wrong incentives and consequences. We should nationalize the Colonial pipeline; have Army Corp and Air Force and AWS basically override the affected systems (I’m sure a big part of the issue is financial and contracts they are worried about; there are plenty of manual overrides for the actual physical function of the pipeline).

That will be a lesson to private companies, keep your security house in order or risk losing everything.

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Anonymous wrote:

I'm SO GLAD that the crises currently facing our country are external and not CREATED BY THE PRESIDENT.

Au contraire...... these have all been created by Biden..... by his actions, his inactions, and his administration's failures.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not blaming Biden yet. Things like this are going to happen. The question is, how does the govt handle it now to resolve the issue ASAP for all of us? That's what we have them for.

The costs for cyber attacks and blackmail that harm non military targets and hurt civilians and our economic need to be escalated. Our spies over seas should be terminating any groups and individuals that cyber attack and cause damage. That will make them think twice about attacking out financial, health, power and energy when the cost is death. It's different than a state sponsored attack, because countries can respond proportionally to each other and target military targets only. When cyber criminals do it they face almost no repercussions.

Ummmm how about we don't kill people.

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Anonymous wrote:

I'm SO GLAD that the crises currently facing our country are external and not CREATED BY THE PRESIDENT.

Au contraire...... these have all been created by Biden..... by his actions, his inactions, and his administration's failures.

Sure, guy.

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I used to love the Babylon Bee but now it's just meanspirited and right wing all the time instead of light-heartedly making fun of both sides.

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Anonymous wrote:I live on the GA/SC border. All of our gas stations are out of gas. I passed 7 on my way to work that had no fuel. Any gas station with gas has lines. It’s quite scary.

Same thing as toilet paper a year ago.

Yup.

I didn’t see any of that foolishness near me. It was people filling their cars and service vehicles that drive all day long everyday, getting gas. Twitter is trash.

People are assuming here these are suburbanites. They very well could be farmers that rely on their tractors for their livelihood. If you get out of your bougie suburbs and go out towards Leesburg, there are plenty of farms. Or to put it in terms you city-folk understand, wineries.

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More wars for oil!!!

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Anonymous wrote:I live on the GA/SC border. All of our gas stations are out of gas. I passed 7 on my way to work that had no fuel. Any gas station with gas has lines. It’s quite scary.

Same thing as toilet paper a year ago.

Yup.

I didn’t see any of that foolishness near me. It was people filling their cars and service vehicles that drive all day long everyday, getting gas. Twitter is trash.

People are assuming here these are suburbanites. They very well could be farmers that rely on their tractors for their livelihood. If you get out of your bougie suburbs and go out towards Leesburg, there are plenty of farms. Or to put it in terms you city-folk understand, wineries.

If they are getting diesel for their tractor, as they always do, why don't they have safe containers?
- City-folk suburbanity

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Relax, people.

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Anonymous wrote:I live on the GA/SC border. All of our gas stations are out of gas. I passed 7 on my way to work that had no fuel. Any gas station with gas has lines. It’s quite scary.

Same thing as toilet paper a year ago.

Yup.

I didn’t see any of that foolishness near me. It was people filling their cars and service vehicles that drive all day long everyday, getting gas. Twitter is trash.

People are assuming here these are suburbanites. They very well could be farmers that rely on their tractors for their livelihood. If you get out of your bougie suburbs and go out towards Leesburg, there are plenty of farms. Or to put it in terms you city-folk understand, wineries.

Lol. You don’t know that farming vehicles have special gas, do you? Such a good farm boy would know that the diesel that farmers use on the farm is dyed red because it’s taxed differently, and certainly not purchased at your run of the mill gas station. It’s usually delivered to the farm. https://www.quora.com/Do-farms-have-their-own-fuel-pumps-Ive-never-seen-a-tractor-at-the-local-Exxon-If-so-what-kind-of-fuel-is-it-how-much-does-the-tank-hold-and-how-is-it-delivered

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Anonymous wrote:Relax, people.

+1
This is largely simpletons driving a panic like they always do. Like how if people didn’t insist on stocking up on toilet paper they’re in no danger of running out, the shelves wouldn’t be bare of toilet paper every time it snows lightly.