Posted on 11/03/2022 8:52:08 AM PDT by elpadre
Yeah. Have we seen any level of competence from Russia to suggest that they could have done this? All the evidence is to the contrary
Time will tell on this one. Anything can be hacked.
yes ... and the other thing that reeks about this story is,
IF you did manage to successfully hack into the US military computers, you’d want to keep it *as quiet as possible*, so you could stay there and suck out as much info as possible
you wouldn’t just grab “the Ukrainian Battle Plans” and then blab to the World what you had done
however, that WOULD happen if you were faking everything as a desperate Russian propagandist looking to tell a sensational story!
so I’m calling fake
Come on now. Only a few years ago an autistic British teenager merrily romped his way around America’s securest networks looking for UFO evidence, ostensibly doing nothing more challenging than Matthew Broderick in WarGames.
It’s not that implausible that a Russkie could’ve done it. What’s far funnier is, if one did it, he was so impressed at his pretty average skillz that he had to crow about it.
It seems that you’re still believing that the system was hacked.
And that the people that are telling you this are the same people that have been lying about EVERYTHING for a very long time.
Of course it is by believable, the only question is why it made public.
Nobody is hacking by brute force nowadays.
The Navy had two destroyers that blundered into the way of a super tanker a while ago.
So this is unfortunately believable.
title says American Delta, but the whole website is in Cyrillic... i am confusion
you wouldn’t just grab “the Ukrainian Battle Plans” and then blab to the World what you had done
Exactly.
It makes no sense that Ukrainian "battle plans" would be on an U.S. Forces computer system. Why? It violates several security maxims, such as need to know, limited access, and compartmentalization.
This doesn't pass the smell test.
If this were true, why didn't the Russians scuttle the attack on ships in Crimea, before they did damage?
Snowden discussed this issue at length.
Encryption only works if you have security at both ends—and in the middle.
All it takes is a human, hardware or software flaw—and then even the best encryption becomes irrelevant.
whois.com says this domain name was registered on 2022-09-03 and is "privacy protected" via a company in the Bahamas. So as a site it seems to have been active less than two months.
Only if that’s how you approach the hack. Google “social engineering”.
I got all the way into a police data centre once just by talking a very distractedly techie into giving me the keys. Then I saw a whiteboard with a 24 digit password on it.
Not exactly difficult.
this story defies common sense ..... exactly
I’m not concerned about the technical specifics. Not in my wheelhouse.
I do not believe anything that comes from the US Government.
Right now, aspects of that very same government are alleging that no surveillance video of an attack that took place at the residence of the person 3rd in line for the Presidency, exists, Capitol PD officers weren’t watching the live feed and that the SanFran DA won’t allow the release of the bodycam footage, they want to deport a guy from Canada instead of prosecuting while he’s in a sanctuary city and state, the cops are alleged to have just stood there and waited until the guy started beating someone else on the head while holding a hammer....need I go on?
Thanks, I was wondering how some of the websites out there had such accurate information.
Good post.
In most workplaces (.gov or private) there are incredibly boring courses (in person or on-line) on data security that are mandatory every few months or so.
If there have been no security breaches for years everybody gets complacent.
Everybody.
They become easy marks for social engineering by someone with a lot of self-confidence and strong people skills.
Russia wanted to know when the tranny brigade was going to be inserted.
FULL STOP.
There is no Internet accessible command and control system named DELTA.
The command and control system is GCCS, which is NOT routed through public Internet routers. No Russian or other hacker can get to an address that doesn’t exist in the public TCP/IP address space. There’s no DNS server that hosts this domain. Even if he used a hidden TCP/IP address each packet is examined at the DoD .mil firewall (and many more) and is rejected if it does not have an address through known systems.
Quote:
The US military operates the Defense Message System, the Defense Information Systems Network, the Global Combat Support Systems, the Common Operating Environment, and the Global Command and Control System (GCCS). GCCS is the nation’s leading system for command and control of joint and coalition forces, and incorporates applications required by battlefield commanders to prepare and undertake military operations. Fielded at more than 625 sites globally, GCCS is networked through the highly secured private intranet of the DOD.
“Russia has hacked it; Ukraine’s battle plans are completely compromised.”
Right, because Russia wouldn’t keep that info to itself and take advantage of it. They would rather blab about it to some random website to help them get clicks.
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