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Fourth US Navy Collision This Year Raises Suspicion of Cyber-Attacks (thenextweb.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Next Web: Early Monday morning a U.S. Navy Destroyer collided with a merchant vessel off the coast of Singapore. The U.S. Navy initially reported that 10 sailors were missing, and today found "some of the remains" in flooded compartments. While Americans mourn the loss of our brave warriors, top brass is looking for answers. Monday's crash involving the USS John McCain is the fourth in the area, and possibly the most difficult to understand. So far this year 17 U.S. sailors have died in the Pacific southeast due to seemingly accidental collisions with civilian vessels.
Should four collisions in the same geographical area be chalked up to coincidence? Could a military vessel be hacked? In essence, what if GPS spoofing or administrative lockout caused personnel to be unaware of any imminent danger or unable to respond? The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) says there's no reason to think it was a cyber-attack, but they're looking into it: "2 clarify Re: possibility of cyber intrusion or sabotage, no indications right now...but review will consider all possibilities," tweeted Adm. John Richardson. The obvious suspects -- if a sovereign nation is behind any alleged attacks -- would be Russia, China, and North Korea, all of whom have reasonable access to the location of all four incidents. It may be chilling to imagine such a bold risk, but it's not outlandish to think a government might be testing cyber-attack capabilities in the field.
Should four collisions in the same geographical area be chalked up to coincidence? Could a military vessel be hacked? In essence, what if GPS spoofing or administrative lockout caused personnel to be unaware of any imminent danger or unable to respond? The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) says there's no reason to think it was a cyber-attack, but they're looking into it: "2 clarify Re: possibility of cyber intrusion or sabotage, no indications right now...but review will consider all possibilities," tweeted Adm. John Richardson. The obvious suspects -- if a sovereign nation is behind any alleged attacks -- would be Russia, China, and North Korea, all of whom have reasonable access to the location of all four incidents. It may be chilling to imagine such a bold risk, but it's not outlandish to think a government might be testing cyber-attack capabilities in the field.
Gay orgies while on watch?
What happened to the human backup?
That's my anti-obama guess for the week, since he let active homos into the military.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
Autopilot is to blame but not on it's own, sailing around the seven seas with an erection is of course the greater problem. We are the US Navy and everyone gets out of our way or we will kill you, hence you do not need to turn off the autopilot and well, bigger ships with only barely sufficiently powerful engines and rudders just barely big enough to steer without causing excessive drag, simply can not take sufficient evasive action to account for the dickhead in the US Navy boat, with their hands around their privates, demanding 'wrong of way' and the merchant vessel no matter what is does is incapable of complying and crash.
Don't be sucked in by the bullshit. Hundreds of professional sailors and supposedly professional officers on board, radar, sonar, look outs, and big boats that can be seen many kilometres away and should take actions well before hand to miss by hundreds of metres and not take stupid chances, literally minutes to make choices and not the sneaky bullshit they are trying to PR drop on you, the seconds you get in a car collision. Time to turn really big rudders (even fucking manually) and change gears and power up really powerful engines. The only thing being hacked is the egoistic psyche of naval officers to wrapped up in their genitals to pay attention to their seamanship. Real deep state crap, always protect the lie of who you pretend to be, rather than the truth of who you have become, fascist war mongers and the behaviour of your military proves it, hence the need for a lie.
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