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The Internal Report Proving the FCC Made Up a Cyberattack (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: An investigation carried out by Federal Communication Commission's own inspector general officially refutes controversial claims that a cyberattack was responsible for disrupting the FCC's comment system in May 2017, at the height of the agency's efforts to kill off net neutrality. The investigation also uncovered that FCC officials had provided congressional lawmakers with misleading information regarding conversations between an FCC employee and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's cybercrime task force. A report from the inspector general's office (OIG) released Tuesday afternoon states that the comment system's downtime was likely caused by a combination of "system design issues" and a massive surge in traffic caused when Last Week Tonight host John Oliver directed millions of TV viewers to flood the FCC's website with pro-net neutrality comments.
Investigators were unable to "substantiate the allegations of multiple DDoS attacks" alleged by then-FCC Chief Information Officer David Bray, the report says. "At best, the published reports were the result of a rush to judgment and the failure to conduct analyses needed to identify the true cause of the disruption to system availability." [Here's an excerpt from the report:] "While we identified a small amount of anomalous activity and could not entirely rule out the possibility of individual DoS attempts during the period from May 7 through May 9, 2017, we do not believe this activity resulted in any measurable degradation of system availability given the minuscule scale of the anomalous activity relative to the contemporaneous voluminous viral traffic." Yesterday, before the report was released, FCC chairman Ajit Pai came clean on the fact that the hack of its comment system last year actually took place. Pai blamed the former chief information officer and the Obama administration for providing "inaccurate information about the incident to me, my office, Congress, and the American people."
Investigators were unable to "substantiate the allegations of multiple DDoS attacks" alleged by then-FCC Chief Information Officer David Bray, the report says. "At best, the published reports were the result of a rush to judgment and the failure to conduct analyses needed to identify the true cause of the disruption to system availability." [Here's an excerpt from the report:] "While we identified a small amount of anomalous activity and could not entirely rule out the possibility of individual DoS attempts during the period from May 7 through May 9, 2017, we do not believe this activity resulted in any measurable degradation of system availability given the minuscule scale of the anomalous activity relative to the contemporaneous voluminous viral traffic." Yesterday, before the report was released, FCC chairman Ajit Pai came clean on the fact that the hack of its comment system last year actually took place. Pai blamed the former chief information officer and the Obama administration for providing "inaccurate information about the incident to me, my office, Congress, and the American people."
I don't trust the government anymore. They abuse the trust we're forced to give them.
"Hey, let's just say we got DDOSed. No one will ever know afterward! We're the government!"
I'm not surprised, and they have a dangerous mentality as government officials in committing a fraud on the American people.
Perhaps you missed this really HUGE news in bad governance:
https://archpaper.com/2018/08/epa-asbestos-manufacturing/
EPA, the *ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency", “no longer consider the effect or presence of substances in the air, ground, or water in its risk assessments.”
Under this rule change, EPA does not consider the *environment* while decided if something is bad for the environment. Hence asbestos, which still kills 40,000 people a year, is now safe and allowed in products, because it's presence in air is no longer considered, so its presence in lungs is no longer considered, so its no longer toxic, according to the EPA.
So now Uralasbest can now export it from Russia to USA (its no longer made in USA). Here's a stock market quote of this company quoted in Moscow:
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/urag?countrycode=ru
To invest in the Russian stock market, you'll need a Russian trading bank..... Alfabank is one of the biggest of those.
1+1=2, f**ing Russians.
Well, at least now we know why anchor baby Ajit Pai decided to "come clean" about the hoax yesterday. He knew the proverbial jig was up and he figured he'd do a partial reveal before he was exposed.
It's become the signature move of this degenerate administration: get out ahead of the bad news and try to blunt the damage.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Fucking douche
in either the Mid Term or the next Presidential election? For all the bad press the Trump Admin has gotten (killing NN, the Helsinki debacle, opening trying to start a war with Iran, NK almost immediately going back to missile research after getting us to acknowledge Kim's govt as legitimate, raising inflation/interest rates being used to counter act economic over inflation brought on by those tax cuts for the rich, economic hits from the tariffs, etc, etc) Trump's poll numbers haven't budged an inch.
I''m starting to get some real fatigue here. Like it does't matter what the hell anyone does because no matter what comes out of this Administration or their party it doesn't change how people vote. At the end of the day if folks are still going to show up and vote for an anti-NN administration then all the dirty laundry in the world is irrelevant. At best it might be of historic interest in a thousand years when archeologists write papers on what the heck went wrong.
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Oh, wait, this took place on the Obama adminstration's watch? Well, down the memory hole with you!
Who was President in May 2017?
Uh, no, it didn't. The "attack" happened in May 2017, four months after Trump was inaugurated, and the lies about the "attack" have been repeated often since then. None of it involves the Obama administration at all, outside of your delusions.
Not another one. No, this didn't happen during the Obama administration's watch. It happened the first week of May, 2017. Someone else tried to use the "Obama's fault" card yesterday when Ajit Pai first admitted that his agency had not been hacked. How many times does this have to be shot down before you guys give up trying to lie about it?
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
Here's the story from last July, so you can track Ajit Pai's weasily and pitiful lie in real time.
https://gizmodo.com/fcc-now-sa...
And here's the Slashdot story from yesterday.
https://it.slashdot.org/story/...
You are welcome on my lawn.
It just took a little while to figure out how best to use their failure - i.e. to set up the right patsy.
But if they'd been corporate officials committing fraud on the American People[tm], that'd been peachy fine?
Privatise the FCC, I say.
In other words, you lot still have a huckster culture and it's a problem.
Also, more proof that any mention of "it wuz haxx0rz!" is typically fraud being committed. Or extreme gullibility. Or both.
If one person you meet has bad information, well, that's that. If you think that "my office, Congress, and the American people" are all misinformed...maybe the problem is you.
Anyone with half a brain knew this was pure shit when it was first reported.
Don't trust your government.
This sounds very suspicious. There should be a bipartisan congressional investigation to get to the truth of what happened.
And where was Obama during Katrina?? Why didn't Obama do more after 911?? What an unpresidential coward!
(here's an /s for all your maga fans out there)
Therefore, I don't give a shit.
Oh, wait, this took place on the Obama adminstration's watch?
Not another one.
Not another not another one.
EVEN WORSE: It all took place on OUR watch. ALL of them. All of US. T / O / B / C / B / etc. Our leaders do represent The People, but exactly which ones are yet to be determined.
The again, remember the president is not omnipowerful, even though everyone would like you to think that way. Congress is the one with the overall power, the president just has some money, some people that work at his pleasure, and overall attention.
You want to make a change? Then change Congress, or at least change who the members talk and listen to. Or even better -- quit making overall laws that affect everyone everywhere, let each state decide for themselves. Maybe they'll be right. Maybe wrong. Maybe they'll be completely STUPID, who knows?
Maybe Idaho like potatos. Maybe Iowa likes corn. Maybe Washington likes apples, or Florida oranges. But let's not pass an overarching law that there's only ONE correct crop. Master country-wide rules (binding laws) need to be far and few between, only handling differences between states, not overriding all of them everywhere to suit a single standard that someone chooses. ("It's good to be King.")
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
Snopes only considers the EPA rule change, *not* the fact asbestos is one of the few successful export of Russia. Its totally weird Trump's obsession with removing asbestos restrictions (google his asbestos tweets to see that).
Yet its not weird at all when you consider the voices whispering in his ear are Russians looking to expand exports.
In that context you can see how they would rank their exports as more important than the lungs of Americans.
We have a Congress who has ceded all of its power to a unitary executive.
I like your style, but everything else you said is horseshit.
Maybe Alabama likes slaves. Maybe California likes emissions standards. Maybe Colorado likes weed. Maybe Louisiana likes undocumented workers, or Georgia pedophiles.
As I said, horseshit, but I still think you're OK, grep -v '.*' *.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Years ago, sites were Slashdotted, nowadays they get Olivered and Colberted.
Things are a bit more complicated.
In a twisted weird point of view, the EPA is actually right :
accidental small exposure to asbesto aren't dangerous, it's the chronic long-term exposition that is highly carcinogenic.
So if you just *live* in a building that is fireproofed by asbesto, and maybe drill a hole or two to put your giant protrait on the wall (accidental small inhalation of dust), you'd be just fine.
On the other hand, the construction workers who will work on the building (e.g.: demolishing or rebuilding it) will inhale massive amount of dust over their career and will almost certainly develop cancer due to that. (well, that and the tobacco smoking).
So as said, EPA is right in a twisted sense : products using asbesto won't necessarily kill *their users*, and could be actually made safe (for the users).
It's all the *other* guys, the guys that will need to process this shit and end up breathing a lot of dust that will very likely die from it.
Not the users, but the other people that will end up with this shit in their environment.
There's almost something classeist there : Trump can enjoy the benefits (mostly fire-proofing) of products, while outsourcing the horrible death to the poor low-wage (mexican immigrants ?) workers, who will handle it and end up with it in their environment.
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How many times does this have to be shot down before you guys give up trying to lie about it?
They will never stop lying about it, because for a significant proportion of the electorate all they need to hear is "it's Obama's fault" and they stop listening, move on to the next thing. They never even notice it being debunked.
The people saying it have a tactic for handling your debunking too. Just watch, one of the replies to your post will demonstrate it. Change the subject, move on to the next lie. You have to remember that they are playing to their audience who is already hostile to your leftist Marxist alt-left MSM biased attacks, they aren't here for a rational debate.
Slashdot is a little less bad because there is at least a sort of functional moderation system, but in general it's best not to waste too much time on debunking (reacting, playing defence) and just concentrate on getting your own narrative based on the truth out. The "gotcha" take-down is satisfying and even works pretty well as click-bait, but I don't think it really changes people's minds.
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Then how did all those "fake" comments get there? I know for a fact there were a ton of "fake" pro-net-neutrality comments. Everyone who I checked that I knew had several comments from "themselves" that were pro-net-neutrality and when I asked them, they had no idea about the system and had never made the comments. Somebody was up to some shenanigans. Until that is investigated, we all know that Ajit Pie is a criminal and involved in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the American people.
I don't see any new material here. It was all given in earlier Slashdot posts
Yeah me too. Granted the FCC has become useless for citizens the last 18 months but the discussion on the stories here has really suffered.
need to fall on their sword
I don't believe they have my/our interests at heart
Rick B.
EVEN WORSE: It all took place on OUR watch. ALL of them. All of US. T / O / B / C / B / etc. Our leaders do represent The People, but exactly which ones are yet to be determined.
Apparently the Russian people?
I don't know what to say about people who prefer treason to honest elections...
Fanatically anti-fanatical
I started visiting Slashdot in 1999 and it was already political back then.
Except when you're the foreign power fucking around in other countries elections.
This happened in May 2017. The transition from the Obama administration to the Trump adminsitration occurred in Jan 2017, four months prior, you reality-denying fascist fuckwit.
You're in severe need of a civics lesson.
They will never stop lying about it, because for a significant proportion of the electorate all they need to hear is "it's Trumps fault" and they stop listening, move on to the next thing. They never even notice it being debunked.
Awful lot of projection going on.
As opposed to a regular jig?
Why not put scare quotes around jig, too, just to look extra stupid?
Stop Yakking about shit you know nothing about. I abate asbestos. What you describe is asbestosis and is dose and time dependent. Mesothelioma is not. In theory, one fiber that manages to penetrate into the layers between the lung walls can become a tumor. To further back that up, sufferers of mesothelioma are usually NOT the person working with the asbestos. It's usually thier family members from where the worker carries all that dust and shit home.
So in a not-so-twisted sense, you're just an EPA bootlicker. Kissing thier ass on slashdot isn't gonna get you a job there, bro.
He gave you EXACTLY what you were asking for and you still shat all over him and his post. You bitch at him for never saying anything good about rump but your ass can't say anything bad about him. You give him a pass on anything because in your mind it's still better than a democrat. You're both partisan shills but the Pope can show proof, as he did. Just because you don't fucking like being called out for what you support means less than nothing. The truth hurts, bitch.
That would be Grep-V's post above. You and I both know the rules too fucking well. I'm ready for a new game, but you can't quit this one easily. Somehow he got his comms mixed up and instead of talking about communications, he ended up at communism. He should probably learn to grep his inputs with the full search term instead of comm*
Yeah, good for you son. Notice my UID? Color me unimpressed.
(Not that this really happened, I'm being funny here. I have no idea what really happened)
They ran their comment system on a Windows box and it crashed and burned. The time it took them to get it back up was the time it took for the guy to drive from Dumfries VA to Washington, get in and hit the machine reset button. Being microsoft it errored coming up so he had to call Microsoft, pay $250 because they let their support run out and fix it.
So call it a DDOS or tell the truth? Let's say it was a DDOS.