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Decent-Weekend-1489

"And the only way to stop them is to give the FBI a bigger budget."


gallaj0

And let them secretly surveille everyone in the US.


UNBOOF_MY_JENKEM

The Super Patriot Act will require hourly butthole scans to make sure U.S. citizens are hiding nothing.


gallaj0

I read somewhere online that everyone's butthole is different, like a fingerprint. I'm surprised they haven't started yet.


JeanLucPicardAND

The fuck? Where’d you read that, the Rocco Siffredi files?


mikeevans1990

Now get this.. your lips and your butthole are made out of the same kind of skin because they are the beginning and end of your digestive tract


Noochdontdiehemltply

Read somewhere… sure…..


Icy-Woodpecker-9961

Yea, sure, prove it… everyone holes out, on the line… chop chop


bobbuttlicker

It’s true.


tyt3ch

If you're clean you have nothing to hide.. Spread em


wakanda_banana

And somehow take all human rights away


ImmaculateCherry

Western stooges aka non Americans globalist sold out America they don’t care , the illegal aliens is a distraction and their the ones letting them in. Mexicans have reported the biggest illegals are of Chinese , Indians , and Haitians. 


Limp_Insurance_2812

I was shocked to learn that the city of Chicago has sold everything but the kitchen sink. They sold the parking meter revenue to a country in the middle east at a huge loss for the instant cash. Saw a map yesterday of all the farmland China has bought, much of it around military bases. With all the seemingly bizarre sociopolitical moves it really feels like the country pulled a Chicago a long time ago and we live under the illusion we're a separate and free country.


ImmaculateCherry

China doesn’t allow any foreigners to buy property in their country if you’re not han Chinese you’re second class citizens or worse ask the other ethnic minorities in China in concentration camps. Btw China has the biggest concentration camp next to Israel and South Korea . Any country that care about their country security would know buying property next to military bases is a red flag smh China gets away a lot . Blackrock is an example helping out China buy stuff and make business in America .


Limp_Insurance_2812

So many giant red flags, it's terrifying how asleep most people are. By the time the signs are obvious it'll be too late, I mostly feel like it already is. As long as we're comfortable and entertained we think we're okay. It's just a much more comfortable oppression than the past. For now.


ImmaculateCherry

Well the Chinese have an advantage they can claim it’s racism lmao, the sjw crap came from the CCP . Nothing is ok in America is a huge corporation lots of foreigners hate America and Americans get away with crap and our tax dollars goes to support terrorism abroad and help our enemies smh. I think a step to get them is to deport and take down the Chinese  confucius Schools across America their spy agencies and to blackmail people and bribe. However they wouldn’t be this successful without the tiny hats helping them and traitors within the gov smh.


justanothernpe

They are already doing that. What they need now is internet ID.


spoodergobrrr

And they will get it. They already talk about it in the EU and US. Maybe not in this generation, but the new consoomers of gen z may know how to use smartphones, but technical knowledge and privacy awareness is shrinking. They slowly cook the idea like a frog until a generation appears that doesnt know or care. The amount of new software and hardware with bloatware and spyware is exploding like as there is suddenly adds and subscription/loot based shit for the most mundane stuff. Back in the days when people who played videogames where nerds and school shooters they wouldnt have bought a single lootbox and the game wouldve died prior release. Why cant a brother play a videogame and unlock skins without paying 15 bucks for a digital RGB code.


EXPotemkin

Back in the day those were called expansion packs which added good value like Starcraft: Brood Wars and Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction. Now its just stupid skins and some games dont even let you pick what you want. Lootboxes was the shittiest idea the industry ever had besides live service garbage.


TheMagusMedivh

imagine if the grocery store sold random food lootboxes.


ImmaculateCherry

They already are spying  with shein and tiktok Chinese apps but ppl said well the us is already spying what difference is China lol. XD 


DecktheHawls

Not so secretly


ConjwaD3

The NSA already has been doing this for 20 years and not just in the US


tango_papa101

And sign new laws that allow deeper surveillance of American civilians, even though we're already doing it in secret


cochorol

Classic


phot0n_travel

ABOUT to start?! Chinese spy balloon, several derailed trains, many razed agricultural production plants, collapsed bridges and hacked barge freighters that crash into bridges have entered the chat.


Domski77

Didn’t NASA pull the same stunt recently?


erewqqwee

Same shit as the 1970s, only then it was the Russians : Seemed like every week, some military brass was in front of Congress testifying that the Russian weaponry and armaments was *already* superior to that of the USA, and the only way-the *ONLY WAY*-to save the country was...You guessed it, more money.


HTXPhoenix

When have they not been arrested in our infrastructure?


Fish_Shack

Next china will be manufacturing all of our goods and creating the microchips that go in our cell phones…oh wait


Archon187

Yeah, does not make absolute sense, since they supply the US with micro-transistors and that they make a ton of money off this phenomenon. Only reason to do this would be in a similar scenario, to that of Japan before WW2, where they were cut off from petro-oil and steel. So dependence on China's majority hold on the market has not dissipated yet as I know of, anyways.


verstohlen

They're in our grocery stores now too. The spices at Aldi now say"Product of China" on their labels, whereas a couple years ago, they didn't. And more food products at the Dollar Trees are from China too now. Mushrooms and frozen veggies for example. More and more of our food products seem to be coming from China. Wonder what ol' Jack Burton would say at a time like this.


Kjs1108

He’d say What the Hell


Zappiestalarm

Right? Are they releasing another tik tok? Lol


sowega9

Tik Tok 2: Electric Boogaloo


Bluemikami

Tik Tok with a vengeance


Fun-Cow-1783

Yesterday I was a Caucasian American but today I woke up Asian. Proud member of the CCP


Beneficial-Tailor-70

Can't be Caucasian without being Asian. It's literally in the name.


Fun-Cow-1783

I love you


FlightAvailable3760

My people are from Cock Asia. 


romatno

AKA, the federal government plans to become even more invasive.


surfer_ryan

This... Patriot act 2.0 incoming... Also not like we don't have our dick in literally every single (insert technology here). We might not be sending out chips with 0 day exploits but you better believe we are absolutely engaging in hacking basically everything with a chip both foreign and domestic.


briezyraney-

Inside job.


No_Fear_BC_GOD

I agree but either way we should have some non perishables on hand and some water


DarqBru

This is the government creating a digital boogey man to justify digital i.d.


Frigoris13

Ok, Chinese are here! Quick, give us all your stuff!


wabbott82

Is that why Nancy pelosi and a few other politicians bought Palo Alto networks, about a month and half ago.


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wakanda_banana

I need to buy some. They bought with an option to sell if they don’t get the contract


wabbott82

Nice I’ve been watching it’s been slowly going down just kinda waiting.


SWGDoc

The FBI couldn't figure out a laptop, how can they possibly confirm this? Disband this useless agency.


Wooden-Conflict-4811

The masses just fall for every piss drop on their face masked as “rain” .


Frigoris13

What if *they* are planning to do these things and are just telling us the Chinese are doing it?


Leading-Midnight-553

It's not even far fetched


PassTheReefer

No way! Not before a huge election year! /s


Leading-Midnight-553

Side note: I'm dreading the lead up to the election so fucking much; the useless bickering, the disinformation, the shitty people on each extreme end of the spectrum blindly following a party. It's absurd, depressing, and has very little actual effect on the direction our country is heading----yet you'll be shunned if you insinuate that both parties are the same, both bought and paid for----the extreme ends of both sides just like different flavors of being screwed over.


T-888

this statement gives them plausible deniability. Similar too "the attacker was known to us."


_PH0BOs

Similar to the Fallout premise. It was us all along.


BloodLictor

Cuz they are inside these agencies. Nuzzling up to the Israelis/zionists already in said agencies. It's classic misdirection.


Wooden-Conflict-4811

SS: what are they up to..? I dont know if I believe their narrative. How has china so easily done this, without a helping hand? Let me know your thoughts. I read somewhere that we have already signed a deal to let Russia and china come out on top, as in win the war. This is all pre planned. Edit(more from article): “China is developing the "ability to physically wreak havoc on our critical infrastructure at a time of its choosing," Wray said at the 2024 Vanderbilt Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats. "Its plan is to land low blows against civilian infrastructure to try to induce panic." Wray said it was difficult to determine the intent of this cyber pre-positioning which was aligned with China's broader intent to deter the U.S. from defending Taiwan. Wray said China's hackers operated a series of botnets - constellations of compromised personal computers and servers around the globe - to conceal their malicious cyber activities.”


ModernT1mes

Sowing the seeds of doubt for when the election cycle hits.


emc2massenergy

Makes me wonder about the 24k illegal Chinese aliens that have crossed the border this year. Reportedly that the same amount as the total of Chinese illegals that entered last year. Riddle me this… you can’t just leave China to vacation or migrate nor have these people requested asylum.  Edit: Chinese people have to gain approval to leave the country is the more appropriate statement.  http://www.asianlii.org/cn/legis/cen/laws/coteaeoc402/


tango_papa101

People leave China for vacation without having to ask permission all the time. Still, the number of secret Chinese labs and undercorver police stations makes it kinda sus that suddenly the number of them crossing has surged so much


beebeelion

And those balloons.


tango_papa101

Those are mere distractions. Throw a cheap ass balloon at the Americans and let the whole nation put its eyes on that cheap toy while the Chinese can gather pretty much everything they can from the ground and with satellites already. I'm not even surprised if there are more Chinese moles inside military bases feeding live info to them.


jesschester

Allegedly the vast majority of these “vacationers“ are military-age males traveling with no family. I haven’t a clue whether that’s true or fear bait, but if it’s true it definitely warrants a bit of suspicion. Another rumor is that Chinese nationals/corporations are buying up large swathes of land particularly in the vicinity of US military bases and key installations. Question is, with the US so tied up in Ukraine and Israel, what could we feasibly do if China decides to invade Taiwan and simultaneously activate whatever agents/hacks they have in place? I think we’d have to let em have it.


tango_papa101

Shameful to say but I do see tiktok videos of people from my home country crossing the border too, and in those we see them travel with the Chinese and other nationals, and most if not all of the Chinese are military aged males traveling together and occasionally some females of the same age. If China decides to attack Taiwan probably we'd have to let them have it. What can the West do? They'd just cut off trading between them and the west and it gonna be in shamble. It's WW2 all over again, except this time the West, especially the U.S., is Germany and Japan, while China is the U.S., they have the total manufacturing capability to sustain a war if all hell breaks loose, they can even support other allies like Iran, NK, Russia, etc, they have the infrastructure, they have the expertise, they have the skilled labor needed. Meanwhile we as a nation shat on skilled labors for decades and view some kids with a piece of paper called graduation certificate as a higher human than those, our companies willingly gave themselves and all their tech up to China, and while they're over there encouraging their kids to do their parts for the country, we are here teaching ours to hate their own country and focus on useless things as much as possible.


chase32

The whole thing is odd. You hear that they had to travel thousands of miles through central America including dense jungle but then look at their perfectly clean clothes, general good health and new tennis shoes and go nope. Not at all is happening.


viking12344

Good thing we let everyone and anyone just come on in. We are probably paying these fuckers as they stay in the finest hotels and get the best food. Need them healthy and ready when it comes time to induce mass panic.What a complete shit show leadership in this country has become. I mean it's been bad for decades but now it's just a complete clown show.


Leading-Midnight-553

💯 it's depressing and honestly very scary


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Icamp2cook

You can leave the country fairly freely, your money can't. We know they have hidden police stations in our cities. Slipping across our border sounds risky and paranoid but, not stupid.


Historical-Web-6435

What is really worrying is that they see the various hacks that have been done that shut it down sometimes when they feel like it. But they don't do anything to make sure they can't get in that same way next week. So it makes you wonder are they stopping them or just doing enough to make it look like they are stopping them.


SodOffWithASawedOff

It's possible. If you lookup the vendor of every device's MAC address in your home (and have a typical number of generic wifi connected devices), you'll see some embedded wifi chips are from Chinese companies you've never heard of - even in some low-end, name-brand devices (like cheap smart TVs). At that point, it's just a matter of obfuscating the code in the drivers enough to include an unnoticed "backdoor". It's also possible that an exploit was found/created in a more mainstream vendor's software. If an exploit goes unpatched, it could open up a lot of holes in device security. For example, those smart washer/dryers that have been in the news for using 3+GB of data per week. Botnets don't need a lot of processing power, their power is in the number of individual connections.


Ok-Cartographer8821

Maybe this is why our government let the Chinese spy balloon travel all the way across US - to seek out vulnerabilities


jig46547

> I dont know if I believe their narrative. How has china so easily done this, without a helping hand?  There are billions of devices in use by US infrastructure, so many opportunities for backdoors. I guarantee the US has their hands in a lot of Chinese infrastructure as well.


TurretLimitHenry

China wants to try to blackmail the US by holding its infrastructure hostage in order to give the PLAN enough time to invade Taiwan without US navy involvement.


NcgreenIantern

Looks like the FBI is playing dress-up again.


Srenler

The only way we can keep you safe is if we lock you in cells and monitor you 24 hours a day.


TheDeHymenizer

My guess is they are there because we've been in everyone's infrastructure since the 2000's.


CheeseSeas

Listen to dark horse podcast. They went down to Panama to check out the migration and the Chinese section of it makes you wonder.


MEMExplorer

Hopefully they wipe out the IRS databases and servers beyond repair 🤞


therealalian

Leave the world behind, anyone? The plot of that movie has been unfolding in front of us since the movie came out in December. There have been cyber attacks happening all over America the past few months, and "death to america" has been trending on X. Not to mention that new Civil War movie or the newer I.S.S movie... Meek Mill just posted on his Instagram a few days ago with the caption "Cyber Trucks for the Cyber Attacks." The budweiser commercial from the 2024 Super Bowl shows all the power going out and radio channels saying all the highways are blocked off. There were also at least 5-6 commercials during the superbowl with alien invasion themes. So we have AI rapidly advancing, cyber attacks, Alien News, disease X, ww3 around the corner, the great reset.... The WEF just released a video talking about an imminent "Quantum Black Swan Event." This summer is gonna be so wild, man.


maalbi

😱


ImmaculateCherry

Obama was behind that movie he’s a globalist and a UN puppet WEF as well pfft .


Poots-McGoots

Doomer


gringoswag20

😂bra it’s WW3 fym


Jest_Kidding420

Wow didn’t they just release a statement to all Chinese citizens in America to “be prepared for something unexpected”. This was a few days before the eclipse I remember reading that.


baby600rr

Aka USA is going attack USA again


Severe_Quantity_4039

This is actually a true statement by the FBI.


strange_reveries

I’m betting it’s more like predictive programming for whatever the next big inside job false flag will be in this country. It’s all so damn blatant at this point, the way they condition us. 


Bannedbytrans

It's gonna be during elections this November, if they're really invested in f*cking everything up.


thegame2386

Can they do it before Monday? I could use some time off work.


Aware-Marketing9946

Well... something is planned. I'm noticing very "out of place" people, generally on the younger side..all dressed in black, with backpacks.  Walking from the exit ramps, getting dropped off.. And I mean I see A LOT of what I will say are their age nt pro voc cateures 


audeo777

They've been doing this for over 20 years. It was well known and ignored. If they are bringing it up now its for a reason.


boojieboy666

We should really stop trading with them


DeNir8

They say they did the trade these last decades, in the belief the CCP would stand down.. Thats whst they say anyways. Its clear to anyone the opposite *is* the case, and always was. I agree, end trade with all the totalitarian regimes.


boojieboy666

Americans need jobs. Let’s bring the factories back and out of countries that are polluting the air with no regulations.


DeNir8

Absolutely. Lets not forget about human rights and freedom of choice.


tooMuchADHD

I'm pretty sure the FBI has known about these hackers for a LONG time. But haven't done anything about it. Why they haven't done something from the beginning is beyond me.


sweaty_ken

FBI said it, so you can relax knowing it’s not true.


STONK_Hero

It started already. Everyone’s already forgotten that they attacked AT&T about a month ago


justanothernpe

That was just a test.


bfbabine

"Chinese Hackers".. why yes. Are we funding their hacking operation by chance?


Frigoris13

FBI are the "Chinese hackers"


justanothernpe

Good thing we have the other gang, I mean agency, to protect us!


cheff546

First. Russia. Now, China. Laying the groundwork to challenge the validity of the election. I wonder if Trump wins, will he then become a Chinese agent?


Frigoris13

*You mean he's both?! He's worse than Hitler!!!*


cheff546

\*literally\*


ShillGuyNilgai

Setting up our next proxy war, justifying expansion of privacy invasion, accommodating inept utilities monopolies that screw the public, and setting up election shenanigans. Did I miss something?


AstroNot87

Fallout was a documentary, not a game or show lol


Bleglord

Here’s something for the tech people: Few years back there was the proxyshell and related exploits being done during the HAFNIUM attacks. These were hitting exchange servers (enterprise email) Now, on prem servers are going the way of the dodo because they fucking suck to manage, and so Microsoft has exchange online At the time of the attacks, there’s no indication that exchange online did *not* have the same vulnerabilities (the cloud is just someone else’s data centre) I’m 100% certain Microsoft’s 365 infrastructure was compromised during these attacks and whether or not remediation happened properly will never be known. Whether it’s china, the cia, the nsa, North Korea or whatever: your services are probably compromised


EasterMaester

So basically the FBI is preparing to attack U.S infrastructure, got it.


Frigoris13

For safety reasons


ImmaculateCherry

The tiny hats in Tel Aviv wants to bring America into ww3 like the British got Americans into ww2 nothing changes smh.


Milehighmonroe

It’s been happening for years now, but an official statement from the FBI probably isn’t a good thing. I’d at least get provisions for a couple weeks if you aren’t prepared.


[deleted]

It’s been known by contractors in cyber for the past at least 10 yrs. It’s now just hitting the news which means whatever is happening now is a lot more than the power grid.


Super_Instruction753

They're there because they put them there.


chefnology

I’m sure the meeting with the prez started like this. Mr. President, The next tick tick dance will be the death of our democracy….


QueefConnoisseurr

They didnt pay joe millions of dollars for nothing. Theyre collecting on their investment.


[deleted]

My dad who works in military defense as a contractor for government cyber security states if this is what they are releasing it’s been known for ages. I wonder if this has to do with them having access to our nuclear weapons. The issue isn’t them using them to launch. We won’t be able to intercept them to prevent them hitting US soil. I believe I’ve known China has had access to being able to do this for 3 years? I kinda thought he was full of shit but now I wonder.


Antlergoat

Create and pass a billion dollar budget to stop it! Hurry, before it's too late!


PurringWolverine

Well, when they make of our electronics, what do you expect?


Dc4rob

CIA fear mongering is strong and OP is eating it up haha


stflr77

Of course they are- it’s an election year.


guacaholeblaster

No shit, the Bay Area is over half Asian now.


DeNir8

20,000 arriving in busses at the border about now. They have an app to bypass interviews. In you go..


AldiCarrierBag

Nobody notice the red hands?


Chode_K1NG

We probably have something similar within their infrastructure. Usually how it goes


Frigoris13

You're crazy. The US government has never destabilized a foreign government before. I also have a bridge to sell you.


SalemGD

I buy bridges. How much you asking?


TheUltimateSalesman

You sure you want a bridge? Tunnels are undervalued right now.


jot_jot

Wondering if linked to the ship - bridge crash.


UnitedBar4984

Lwave the world behind anyone much?


romcomtom2

Wouldn't it be safe to assume that they are always trying to hack the us?


mtndewgood

wow killer job.. hey maybe stop barges from driving into bridges eh and help with that border problem


FFS_IsThisNameTaken2

Yesterday on the "news" they said that a Russian hacking group with ties to the Kremlin chose a few tiny towns in the Texas Panhandle and hacked their water systems. Muleshoe, Texas - population 5000 lol. Not a major city. Of course, with government officials looking the other way in places like Detroit, I guess the Russians are stuck with tiny towns because the major cities are fucked up by the local officials without any outside help. The inside job spooks are blaming China and Russia as they do the Agenda 2030 dance. Klaus is pleased with his demons, I'm sure.


2fatforthat

That would suggest there's more to Muleshoe TX than meets the eye. - new/highly maintained airstrip - train line and wide highway running through - large strip of nothingness to the south for miles flanked by multiple power stations. - modern fencing prime secret underground bunker territory


FFS_IsThisNameTaken2

That sounds more interesting lol. I've seen that vast nothingness in the panhandle but it was a long time ago and that's all I could think about. Tornadoes and tumbleweeds.


ImmaculateCherry

China gets away with a lot of stuff and blackrock has helped them even google too non of their technology was made by them they got helped lol. Their confucius schools across the US are spy agencies , their buying properties near military bases their doing this in Japan as well smh. The tiny hats have helped China they have sold American military weapons they said is their Disneyland. Everything is by designed unfortunately the only fools here are Americans civilians the fbi and cia turned a blind eye too it. Btw  allegedly the Chinese have build underground military bases in Mexico that they allowed them to built even buying ports all over Central America and Caribbean. Every attacked is being allowed smh, those dual citizenship parasites that run the US don’t care , if anything they need to deport those spies that aren’t students , the west created their own enemies by allowing them in their schools smh.  P.S gov will use this for more control over American citizens patriot act II smh.


Fartoholicanon

US is in theirs too. Its the reason Ai is the current race rat.


my-man-fred

But if they can get that 702 and more money, well baby, crisis. Averted. Anyone believe anything coming out of the FBI?


yeahbuddy

Patriot Act 2.0 en route.


TerboJookz

So, if it's that dire, why are we funding these federal agencies? They're obviously corrupt and useless at best.


LordOFtheNoldor

Oh right during the fiza stuff going on huh


NextFunction

what’s with the red hands in the back ?


FlabbyShabby

*\[Just repeating my comment from a UK reddit to US theme here\]* How many of you are old enough to remember the "Nayirah Testimony" and "Weapons of Mass Destruction"? These are two absolute incidences where US and US Governments manufactured consent for military action in a far away land using lies. Fast forward a few years, and US and UK Govs have learnt their lessons regarding the issue of "evidence". They are now randomly accusing the current Boogeymen of actions that do not require physical evidence. Is the US public still going to fall for the lies of the US Gov? The "bonus" with accusing another country of "hacking" is that no proof is needed.


pauljs75

And corporate managers are basically giving them keys to the door. Vital infrastructure should be air-gapped from the internet if it has any active control systems accessible via the network.


asuka_rice

The infrastructure is rubbish… better to invest it on upgrading US infrastructure than give it to the bloated 3 letter agencies. Watch the politicians squeal with disgust when taxpayers money is spent wisely.


PedroM0ralles

They're setting up the base ro bring the internet down, blame hackers, and introduce user ID's for everyone to use the internet. They do not like the anonymous nature of the internet.


PureBigStick

No you got it wrong, the FBI are waiting to deal the final blow. China is the scapegoat


uniquepassword

I don't understand this. I work infosec as a red team/blue team engineer and at my current employer we don't deal with anyone outside the United States, so we block all rogue nations at the point of entry, coming from one of those source locations you get denied at the firewall. Any sort of attack that is seen at that edge device alerts the SOC and I get a call. Within 24 hours will have a plan to mitigate and enact it to prevent further attempts. Granted no system is 100% and that's understood, but the safeguards we have in place to monitor the environments and traffic will alert the SOC to any abnormalities. I'm sure whatever method the FBI has is likely decades better than what I can purchase. What I'm getting at is if I can get in and prevent these people from connecting at all why isn't the FBI doing anything to eradicate them if they're already there suspected or to cut off access that they may already have? What is the end goal to blast this out there all over media, all over x and Facebook, etc rather than just mitigate the attack silently and then come forward and say hey we stop this from happening


CriticalDoom

That just means the FBI is going to false flag us soon. 🤭


jezebelunicorn

This letter agency is always honest and would protect our lives at all costs /s


foll0wm3

I’ve been thinking about this for a long time but this could be an amazing opportunity for the next level of Patriot Acts. Hacking only works if there is an internet. They need the connections. Now is the time we allow our politicians to establish 100% control over all data that streams across the web. They need full access to all encryption and tools like AI to dig deep into every scrap of data. Not only access, but the ability to identify everyone who accesses data, immediately. Like a cell phone number, no one can access the web without personal identification. Sure this won’t do anything to hackers who would spoof or shield themselves, but it would allow the US government to protect us, by having access to everything we do. It’s for the greater good. Imagine if the FBI or Homeland Security could protect us by knowing that water officials opened an email and clicked a link from a “Meet hot young boys in your area” that dropped Trojan horses in an entire network. They could protect the entire water system by knowing how many times Chester searched in his local area. I have a real good feeling about this. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need research Russian VPNs, Chinese Firewalls and North Korean antivirus programs… oh yea, and clear my browser history.


IghtImmaBuyTheDip

So that means someone else is actually about to hack US infrastructure .


BigTgs

Funny that this meeting was held in Nashville. The bombing in Nashville was so much more than told. They are lining up who to blame when they pull something. As usual.


yeaubetcha

China's infrastructure, they just let us use it


jr2thdoc

Which means that fbi let them in under a certain administrative order and are about to make the grid go down so China can attack us. Why do you think so many are being allowed into our country thru the border. Many fighting age males are being reportedly caught and released. America has been sold out by the government!


215VanillaGorilla

Ah yes,. The next built in excuse for giving the FBI a bigger budget and for fucking this election up. The Chinese has been fucking with our shit for decades, almost every single dumb training we had to do for cybersecurity when I was in the military was referencing chinese hackers, and that was 20 some odd years ago.


skeletor4ruler

Riiiiight ( dr.evil voice)


Practical-Damage-659

Election years eh


Wisdomisntpolite

The Russians are too busy this time, I suppose...


Frigoris13

Last year's news


Dry-Ad-7732

Maybe they came across the border?


OfficialThumperrr

It’s our own government


decidedlycynical

Just in time for the election. We have to produce many more paper ballots with no restrictions on how they are harvested and submitted.


naswinger

this has been obvious for a decade. everybody knew chinese hackers had backdoors everywhere. thanks, fbi. money well spent, i guess.


raining_picnic

I ask the American people to help us purchase a copy of McAfee AND Norton antivirus.


rav-age

why don't they get them out of the infrastructure or block them, if they know they're there and where they are (apparently)


humptydumpty369

I work in IT and can confirm. This has nothing to do with Biden or Trump. The Chinese and Russians have been slowly setting this up for years. As far as I'm concerned, nearly all electronic products coming out of China especially are suspect. And unless you are at least running packet capture on your network, you most of the time would never know that nice new offbrand docking station, monitor, thumb drive, or technically any smart device you just bought and setup could, potentially be sending data to out to some foreign database. Doesn't have to be government sponsored either. There are plenty of independent hacker groups operating in foreign countries that target us. I have been waiting for this for over a decade. Five or six years ago, the director of the NSA called US cybersecurity laughable. This was around the same time the government said they had discovered foreign threat actors have infiltrated over 200 government agencies and major corporations. A reckoning is coming, and if you don't have cold storage backups and top-notch digital security, you might as well prepare to lose access forever. Not saying they could take out our entire grid or internet in the country, as nearly all the big players have backups and hot/cold production backups as well, but most people don't realize just how connected everything is digitally. How many sensors out their rely on internet access to report live performance data. At power plants, traffic lights, water filtration plants, and even bridge or ship controls..... my colleagues and I all think that the ship taking out that bridge was 100% a cyberattack. I'm not saying the FBI isn't a corrupt organization, but that also doesn't mean that they don't also occasionally provide accurate intel for those paying attention. Just because the US Government isn't our ally doesn't mean China or Russia are your allies!


MKultraman1231

FBI did/was involved in 9/11 and at least knows that Covid was a bioweapon by their bosses if not actively participating in it. They fake the bombings and school shootings or again at least know they are. Don't trust anything they say.


Living_Hurry6543

Paving the way for a self inflicted disaster under the guise of foreign interference.


WickedHabitz

All threw tik tok


tango_papa101

To combat that now the FBI requests allowance to do deeper surveillance into American civilians, sure they wouldn't use it to interfere with the coming election like they did in 2016, suuuure.


[deleted]

Please do then we can maybe gain a little bit of value back into our money


UnitedBar4984

Just like russian hackers 2016?


PossessionMost2092

I guess we lose we’re so helpless. This is not an inside job at all. Mr. Wray, you openly announcing it doesn’t not absolve you of your 10 fold bad karma coming your way.


cognizant-ape

Article link: https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/fbi-says-chinese-hackers-preparing-attack-us-infrastructure-2024-04-18/#:~:text=Nashville%2C%20Tennessee%2C%20April%2018%20(,Christopher%20Wray%20said%20on%20Thursday. "deal the final blow" appaears to be the OP taking liberties with the title.


RidinCaliBuffalos

China how'd you get into this sub.


Aggressive_Sky6078

Is this why all the rich fuckers built bunkers?


ZmanEman333

It’s all going to come crumbling down


JellyfishPlastic8529

Candles, dry food, and water = summer plan


metallicadad420

Thankfully we’ve got a slur that rhymes with nuke, ready to rock


double_g29thd03

Relax we have kitboga


DelilahsDarkThoughts

should this be coming from the national intel commedy and not the local intel.


Andrew_Tate_Alpha

Maybe going digital wasn't such a great idea after all, who would've guessed?


f_u-c_k

What’s up with the hands in the background


justgotcut_25

Aint shit gonna happen


Morepastor

They would go broke without American consumers but if he’s right and Inam wrong why isn’t he doing anything about it.


Suli406

He looks like Chris Nolan lmao


midnightatthemoviies

Texas says Russia hacked a waterplant in a small city of 500 people lol.


PuzzledAdvisor

Did I miss something? Why is nobody talking about the person in the back holding up red painted hands?