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Stuxnet happened. Did anything happen here? Was anything disrupted, do this look like a coordinated state actor attempt?

Russians have shut down an airliner full of people and also occupied a good chunk of Ukraine and there was less hoopla in the media about it. Someone finds a PHP shell on a laptop and Washington Post is going nuts with "OMG Russians are about to disable our power grid".

If this is not Fake News then I don't know what is...

Was WaPo a respectable news outlet at some point? I feel like it was, I wasn't following it much before. It has gone the way of Fox News it seems recently. Oh well..



> If this is not Fake News then I don't know what is...

Obamaism, the McCarthyism of the 21st century. Otherwise known as good old propaganda. It goes like: Russia hacked the election, Russia hacked our grid, Donald Trump is a in fact Russian robot programmed to win the US elections and destroy America, etc.


Except it isn't. I love how some people seem to deliberately confuse an ineffectual technocrat with an evil dictatorial left-wing conspiracy leader pretending to be an ineffectual technocrat.




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