An Illinois water-utility pump failed. Someone looked at the SCADA logs and found a Russian IP address.
The water district passed the information to the Environmental Protection Agency, which governs rural water systems. “Why we did that, I think it was just out of an abundance of caution,” says Don Craven, a water district trustee. “If we had a problem we would have to report it to EPA eventually.”
Yah, well. The utility had called a SCADA systems expert a few months back--while he was on vacation in Russia--and he had logged in to check a systems problem.
Whoever wrote the fusion center report assumed that someone had hacked Mimlitz’s computer and stolen his credentials in order to use them to hack into Curran Gardner’s SCADA system and sabotage the water pump. It’s not clear whether it was the computer repairman or the fusion center that first jumped to this conclusion.
A spokeswoman for the Illinois State Police, which is responsible for the fusion center, pointed the finger at local representatives of DHS, FBI and other agencies who are responsible for compiling information that gets released by the fusion center.
Oh, well. Back to normal, such as that is.
Gee, a FALSE POSITIVE from our paramilitaristic shitboys in blue?!
ReplyDeleteGosh and golly, Beaver. What a surprise.
When you are done watching the video at the link below you will see that, after billions, maybe trillions, of taxpayer dollars, we are not only NO more safe but that, actually, it is the FREE input of US citizens that is REALLY continuing to keep the US safe...NOT anything the overpaid G-string men and their overpaid local cop henchmen are doing.
A two-year examination into the massive, unwieldy, top-secret world the government has created...
...oh, and, by the by, that wonderful bureaucratic "buck-passing" always gives me a "warm, fuzzy" to know it still exists...
ReplyDelete...that no matter how much we pay and give these pubic sector equine colons they still never seem to understand the concept of responsibility in exchange for salary...
The first three letters in Illinois are "ill".