Computers the control the power grid have been hacked

[classicman]

Former CIA operative Robert Baer:

"Their foreign intelligence service has been probing our computers, our defense computers, our defense contractors, our power grids, our telephone system. ... I just came from a speech at the national defense university and they were hit by the Chinese trying to get into their systems," Baer said.

"They are testing and have gotten in portals. It's a serious threat."

President Obama has started a 60-day review of all the nation's efforts at cybersecurity...

The Defense Department said last year that military installations are "highly vulnerable" to threats to the grid.

I think I'll take the opinions of those who actually know something about this than some blowhard on the internet.

This is a serious concern.

[tw]

Originally Posted by classicman

I think I'll take the opinions of those who actually know something about this than some blowhard on the internet.

How do you do that? How do you routinely disbelieve yourself? What page of the wacko extremist handbook tells you how to do that?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Being childish, as well as wrong, certainly isn't helping your credibility.

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by classicman

Former CIA operative Robert Baer:

...from a speech at the national defense university and they were hit by the Chinese ...

Bullshit. Without going into a long, boring explanation, suffice it to say that there is no way you can tell which country the hackers are coming from. For example, someone in the US could route the hack through a Chinese state computer to make it look like China was behind it. I wouldn't even put the US Government past doing that for political ends.

Either Baer is an idiot or he thinks we are.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Beestie

Bullshit. Without going into a long, boring explanation, suffice it to say that there is no way you can tell which country the hackers are coming from. For example, someone in the US could route the hack through a Chinese state computer to make it look like China was behind it. I wouldn't even put the US Government past doing that for political ends.

With all due respect you are quite wrong.

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

With all due respect you are quite wrong.

I respectfully disagree.