Now, just a day after power is restored in India, following the largest power outage in history, the government in the US is hyping up the threat of a cyber attack on critical systems here:
“The Senate debated a bill on Wednesday to improve America’s cyber security. The Department of Homeland Security said we’ve seen a 20-fold increase in computer attacks recently. So how vulnerable are we?
After 24 years with the FBI — many spent as the bureau’s top cyber cop — Shawn Henry has come face to face with the Internet threat. And he’s worried.
“I think that it is very, very likely,” said Henry when asked if a serious cyber attack against critical system in the U.S is inevitable. “I’m quite frankly surprised it hasn’t happened yet.”
Every day, U.S. government and private computer systems are being probed by cyber thieves and state-sponsored hackers from China and Russia.
“There are estimates that there are attempted breaches in the millions of times per day. They’ll just continuously knock until they find an edge to get in,” Henry said. Asked whether they have gotten in, Henry replied: “They get in regularly.”
In 2011, Henry led the FBI in breaking up an international hacker ring that had infiltrated 4 millio”n computers, including some at the U.S. space agency NASA.
The head of the U.S. Cyber Command estimates corporate and government losses may already total $1 trillion. Many companies don’t even know they have been hacked.”
Comment:
Is this all coincidental? The Indian government talks about the possibility of a large cyber attack in June. In July rioting breaks out, with no apparent cause, in a very strategic area in NE India, displacing vast numbers of people. PM Manmohan Singh goes there. Immediately after, the NE grid collapses, triggering a multi-state power outage, affecting some 300 plus million people. This is repaired. Then the next day, a large outage shuts down power for double the number of people, mostly in north India, far from where Western corporations are located. This follows on cyber-attacks on Indian’s naval HQ that seem to come from Chinese IP addresses.
[The Chinese, although apparently having IQs higher than even the Ashkenazi, seem to leave their signature behind when they commit attacks. Somewhat like that Arabs leaving their passports behind after 9-11. But then Arabs and other darkies don’t have high IQs, so that must be it.]
Notice that Rajat Gupta, who was convicted in June, in lieu of the major perps at Goldman Sachs, is the poster boy for Manmohan Singh and the liberalization of the economy.
He headed McKinsey, the consulting firm most associated with the outsourcing and the loss of American jobs, which is a primary focus of the anger on main street and in the OccupyWallStreet movement, although outsourcing was not the cause of the financial crisis.
Social media references to the Gupta trial played on the word ‘untouchable,” which means the very lowest-caste in India, but also, in the neo-liberal regime, refers to someone whose job is beyond outsourcing. The double-entendre gives the game away.
The take-down of Gupta was co-ordinated by the elites to play to the anarchist, anti-globalization crowd and distract them from the sleight-of-hand surrounding the prosecution of Wall Street crime, which had begun to knock on the doors of the real perps.
Similarly, the Indian power outage, noticeably hyped in the Western media, was described in the social media with many references to “dark ages,” a phrase which contrasts with the slogan of the Indian liberalization regime of the 1990s, which was “India Shining.”
The Dark Ages also refers to the pre-Enlightenment, medieval, and religious world-view, which is, more generally, the target of the Illuminist/Zionist power elite.
Hence the contrast between so-called “shining India” plunged in the dark, because of her “Dark Ages,” (that is, because of her medieval, or religious backwardness) and the illumination of the “New Jerusalem,” “the city on the shining hill,” which is the self-image of London, both as the seat of the City (the banking establishment), as well as the head of the restored British empire, now a world empire, declaring itself to the assembled royalty of Europe.