[Texas Eagle]

Wasn’t this hacking possible when President Dr. Trump was in office?

[Mathews]

Probably, but it didn’t happen under his watch.

[cyclotic]

It seems to only happen when leftists are in charge. Perhaps the hackers know that conservatives will make the penalty very painful if caught.

I’m getting a bit nervous. I live in Maryland and am two tanks west this week for work

[alstewartfan]

Who knows? This may have been planned by the same type of nefarious forces that unleashed the Wuhan Flu and stole the election.

[fuzzylogic]

Yeah....the timing is just a little suspicious eh?

We have a “Green New Deal” POTUS and “all of a sudden” anything related to oil is having issues....and they call this a “private industry issue”. This isn’t incompetence...

[hsmomx3]

I would think so which makes me wonder, who REALLY is behind this outage.

Seems this administration is intent in making everyone’s lives miserable in so many ways.

[DoodleBob]

If I read the story correctly, the pipeline is owned by Colonial, a private company and not the govt. Colonial's system is held hostage by ransomware and the firm isn't telling the govt what are their plans (i.e. Pay or not). Colonial believes it can get the spice rolling by the end of the week.

This could have happened under Trump. If this happening under a weak, feckless President* vs Trump is causation or simple correlation is a matter of opinion.

Interestingy, the hackers posted a message on its dark web page that it would vet buyers of its ransomware in the future to “avoid social consequences.” “We are apolitical. We do not participate in geopolitics,” the message says. “Our goal is to make money and not creating problems for society. From today, we introduce moderation and check each company that our partners want to encrypt to avoid social consequences in the future.”

If you want to put on tin foil, maybe the impetus for this attack is for Bidet to waive the Jones Act, which requires ships to be built and flagged in the U.S. and crewed by American workers to transport goods between U.S. ports.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

He didn’t have the same agenda to push.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it isn’t being intentionally done to push a biden agenda.

Oh, gee..lookee here:

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/05/10/buttigieg-uses-colonial-pipeline-hack-to-push-2t-infrastructure-bill-excellent-modern-infrastructure-a-natl-security-issue/

[Mr.Unique]

Wasn’t this hacking possible when President Dr. Trump was in office?

Of course.

But driving up fuel prices wasn't one of Trump's goals. It is a goal of lefties.

[redgolum]

If it is what my IT friends say it is, all of our infrastructure is at risk.

[redgolum]

If it is what my IT friends say it is, all of our infrastructure is at risk.

[GOPJ]

Wasn’t this hacking possible when President Dr. Trump was in office?

Yeah, and middle east thugs could have attacked Israel too... and Mexican cartels (like what's happening now)...

and yeah, hackers could have shut down pipelines... but it didn't happen because the evil ones of the world were afraid ... Afraid because Trump was a real President who would have stopped them... and Biden is a commie thug's wet dream of a pushover squish..