{"id":46761,"date":"2019-06-19T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T17:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46761"},"modified":"2019-06-19T12:01:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T17:01:03","slug":"what-about-venezuelas-hacked-power-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46761","title":{"rendered":"What About Venezuela\u2019s Hacked Power Grid?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/06\/19\/what-about-venezuelas-hacked-power-grid\/\">What About Venezuela\u2019s Hacked Power Grid?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia and the US are engaging in tit-for-tat hacking of each others\u2019 power grid, the New York Times is reporting, in what is really a kind of cyber \u201ccold war\u201d where the hackers from each country\u2019s military and intelligence services load electronic \u201cexplosives\u201d in the computer systems of critical infrastructure of the other, that in a crisis or war could be \u201cdetonated\u201d to create chaos or bring down electric grids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Times article, the publication of which President Trump decried in a tweet as \u201cclose to treason,\u201d was disturbing for a number or reasons. One was that sources told the Times the hacking by the US Cyber Command of Russia\u2019s power grid had been conducted without the president\u2019s knowledge, for fear that he might act to prevent it or might disclose it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words, an action \u2014 the hostile hacking of another rival country\u2019s essential infrastructure, which the US government has warned other nations would be viewed as an \u201cact of war,\u201d is being taken by the US military, without the President\u2019s or Congress\u2019s knowledge!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That should be enough to send shivers down the spine of any sane person. In fact, the that could lead to a US \u201cmilitary response.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the Times is correct in both its articles, the current US hacking of Russia\u2019s power grid is evidence of a US military establishment run amok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congress should be outraged and calling for immediate hearings to determine the chain of command that allowed this to happen. Either Trump is lying, and knows all about the hacking, or some high-ranking military officers who acted without his knowledge should be fired the way President Truman fired an insubordinate Gen. Douglas McArthur during the Korean War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What About Venezuela\u2019s Hacked Power Grid? Russia and the US are engaging in tit-for-tat hacking of each others\u2019 power grid, the New York Times is reporting, in what is really a kind of cyber \u201ccold war\u201d where the hackers from each country\u2019s military and intelligence services load electronic \u201cexplosives\u201d in the computer systems of critical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5493,11643,1921,1574,827,851],"class_list":["post-46761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-counterpunch","tag-dave-lindorff","tag-new-york-times","tag-power-grid","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46762,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46761\/revisions\/46762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}