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Last month it was a major oil pipeline from Texas to the east coast. Shut down for a week.
Now it's slaughterhouses and meat-packing plants, halted over the weekend with no recovery in sight.
Now that it's a normal weekday and the full workforce is available, will these plants be able to bypass the hacking and get back on line again? Or will they keep shaking in their boots and delay restoration (like the pipeline did) out of fear that something else will go wrong? Or did the hackers so genuinely mess things up, delete enough critical info files, and reprogram enough machines to make the damage semi-permanent?
Tell me, people running these (and other important) industries: Isn't it about time you took the computers running these systems, OFF the Internet? Isn't it time to QUIT saying to the hackers, saboteurs, and high school students eager to see the effects of their anonymous hacking spread all over the morning papers any more, "Sure, come right in and mess with us all you want, we won't do much to stop you!" ?
Wouldn't it be a good idea to lock the barn door before the horses get out, for a change?
Meat Plant Closures Are Spreading After a Cyberattack on JBS
by Fabiana Batista, Michael Hirtzer and Elizabeth Elkin
Tue, June 1, 2021, 9:40 AM
(Bloomberg) -- A cyberattack on JBS SA, the largest meat producer globally, has forced the shutdown of some of world’s largest slaughterhouses, and there are signs that the closures are spreading.
JBS’s five biggest beef plants in the U.S. -- which altogether handle 22,500 cattle a day -- have halted processing following a weekend attack on the company’s computer networks, according to JBS posts on Facebook, labor unions and employees. Those outages alone have wiped out nearly a fifth of America’s production. Slaughter operations across Australia were also down, according to a trade group. One of Canada’s largest beef plants was idled for a second day.
So, this is the new M.O.? Whenever the price of something is about to skyrocket due to the Biden Regime's policy errors a news story will come out that whatever "it" is got "hacked" in a "cyberattack" thus explaining the price surge.
The smithfield plant in Sioux Falls really stinks that part of town up, and you can often hear the sound of cattle and pigs as they are being fed into the plant when riding along the bike trail. It's not all that appetizing. Maybe it's why my plant based meat consumption is up. I still eat meat but the volume is down by around 50%. If more people really gave industrial farming serious thought and research, they'd try to buy more local pasture raised cattle from farmers or cut down their meat consumption. Being the cheapskate I am who doesn't want to spend premium buck on eating, this is a real pickle for me. Chuckle.
They make some damn good braunschweiger at that plant though... best I've ever tasted... the john morell/smithfield brand.
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Last month it was a major oil pipeline from Texas to the east coast. Shut down for a week.
Now it's slaughterhouses and meat-packing plants, halted over the weekend with no recovery in sight.
Now that it's a normal weekday and the full workforce is available, will these plants be able to bypass the hacking and get back on line again? Or will they keep shaking in their boots and delay restoration (like the pipeline did) out of fear that something else will go wrong? Or did the hackers so genuinely mess things up, delete enough critical info files, and reprogram enough machines to make the damage semi-permanent?
Tell me, people running these (and other important) industries: Isn't it about time you took the computers running these systems, OFF the Internet? Isn't it time to QUIT saying to the hackers, saboteurs, and high school students eager to see the effects of their anonymous hacking spread all over the morning papers any more, "Sure, come right in and mess with us all you want, we won't do much to stop you!" ?
Wouldn't it be a good idea to lock the barn door before the horses get out, for a change?
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Like maybe calling Putin, a sponsor of Russian hacking, out and putting the screws to him rather than kissing his butt on an international stage while throwing the entire US Intelligence Community under the bus? Surely couldn't have hurt.
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So, this is the new M.O.? Whenever the price of something is about to skyrocket due to the Biden Regime's policy errors a news story will come out that whatever "it" is got "hacked" in a "cyberattack" thus explaining the price surge.
Well, even though raised Catholic, I never did buy into the concept of papal infallibility.
So, this is the new M.O.? Whenever the price of something is about to skyrocket due to the Biden Regime's policy errors a news story will come out that whatever "it" is got "hacked" in a "cyberattack" thus explaining the price surge.
So you think these companies are willing to shut down plants which no doubt cost them money just to try to make Biden look better? I want whatever you are smoking.
Like maybe calling Putin, a sponsor of Russian hacking, out and putting the screws to him rather than kissing his butt on an international stage while throwing the entire US Intelligence Community under the bus? Surely couldn't have hurt.
You think that's all it will take?
When the aforementioned high school kids, each with more computing power than the Mars Probe at his fingertips, aren't saying to each other at this very moment, "Hey, that's nothing! Watch this, I'll black out the ten biggest cities in the U.S. all at once, all by pressing this key.... right.... here!".
After which another of them says, "That's not such a big deal. Watch this!" (rattles some keys) "There. Now the next 200 planes to enter every major airport's landing or takeoff pattern, will get zero response, and have no way to get in touch with the towers! What a hoot, eh? Wonder how much fuel each of them has on board....".
Not to be outdone, another kid rattles his own keyboard and announces, "There you go. Every floodgate and hydraulic door on the 30 biggest dams in the country, just opened wide and jammed. Before they even know how I did it, every town downstream of them will be totally flooded, and every major reservoir in the country will be drained dry. Now THAT'S cool!".
No Putin required.
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