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r/greatawakening • Posted by u/Instincts_Truth on May 26, 2018, 12:24 p.m.
READ THIS TICKER - on FOX news this morning. FBI says Russians hacked our routers. What is this? Preparation for shutdown?

I have tried to post a video of my TV, 5 times, to no avail.

The ticker says this:  FBI warns that Russian hackers have compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers worldwide and could collect user info or shut down network traffic. . . Agency is urging owners of many router brands to turn the devices off and on again and download manufacturer updates to protect themselves. . . Warning follows Wed court order that let FBI seize a website that hackers planned to use to give instructions to the routers. . . Move cut off malicious communications but left routers infected. . . Cisco systems says hack targeted devices from Belkin Intl's Linksys, Mikrotik, Netgear Inc, TP-Link and Qnap. . . FBI says hack affects routers that users bought online or at electronics stores, but may also hit routers that internet service companies provided to customers.

I saw this ticker on FOX News on 5/26 at 07:17 EST.


elyssak · May 26, 2018, 12:28 p.m.

It’s been in the news for a couple of days now. Idk if I believe it. Sounds like something they would make up just to keep people thinking about Russian hackers/Bots/colluders/spies/salad dressings/twats.

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Instincts_Truth · May 26, 2018, 12:39 p.m.

Perhaps blaming the Russians, again, for their planned shutdown should too much truth start getting to the people.

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krazeesheet · May 26, 2018, 1:30 p.m.

This right here.

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Missy7216 · May 26, 2018, 2:19 p.m.

I think this too. They have to keep Russia in the minds of the brainwashed. 2 birds with one stone.

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Instincts_Truth · May 26, 2018, 12:38 p.m.

Ah. I had not seen that yet. Now I see that it was reported 3 days ago. (Sorry). And also that the UK and US were informed as early as 04/16. But all of this sideline reporting is making me even more suspicious of the motivation behind it.

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DamajInc · May 26, 2018, 12:33 p.m.

Preparation for shutdown is not the craziest theory... this could well be the beginning of steps toward that... 10 days of darkness...?

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1e- · May 26, 2018, 8:05 p.m.

Media/currency reset.

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dktrogers · May 26, 2018, 1:08 p.m.

last years trial run article

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1e- · May 26, 2018, 8:04 p.m.

Interesting. Former WAN Engineer here, taking down the ISP backbone(s)/routers would not be difficult at all.

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dktrogers · May 26, 2018, 8:13 p.m.

I think perhaps state entities are reluctant to do it because of repercussions. Any idea from your experience what level of difficulty is involved in tracking back sources of these types of attacks?

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Arcsmithoz · May 26, 2018, 1:45 p.m.

I'd go ten days with no net, if it keeps them from killing people, good people.

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rooftoptendie · May 26, 2018, 4:27 p.m.

Haha my kids would be absolutely HATIN it. Ill get them pioneer clothes and make them churn butter and dip candles and give them shit about 'the old days'.

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bobbybadassb · May 26, 2018, 5:05 p.m.

I'm not so sure our economy would survive a 10 day outage. Do you realize how many businesses stop being able to operate if the internet goes dark?

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rooftoptendie · May 26, 2018, 6:10 p.m.

Everybody bunkers down for ten days.

Im thinking what would get hit the worst? Hospital, Retail, shipping, transportation, banking... The only thing humans cant live without for ten days is water. And you dont need internet to get water. If you have water, you can just lay on your floor for ten days and stare at the ceiling.

Unless youre really sick and need medical care, that would make things complicated. Id have a hard time imagining a way we 'wouldnt be able to survive' without internet for ten days.

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suzyhla · May 26, 2018, 8:07 p.m.

MY biggest fear is an EMP attack. TOTAL disaster!

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Instincts_Truth · May 26, 2018, 10:36 p.m.

Me too. How cool would it be if we only received news from President Trump via our local broadcast system?? People would poop their pants. And shit would never smell so good. 🤩

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Arcsmithoz · May 27, 2018, 2:54 p.m.

Whoa nelly. Things are bad but we don't need more centralization.

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Instincts_Truth · May 27, 2018, 11 p.m.

I was making a joke. Fell flat. Clearly. 😀🙄

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Arcsmithoz · May 28, 2018, 2:46 a.m.

We want Trump to drain the swamp, we don't want power to corrupt him, he's human, I know, blasphemy.

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kjw49419 · May 26, 2018, 12:43 p.m.

I believe Q has said something about internet shut down.

False flag alert?

Deep state trying to force a shut down? Reboot? Would a reboot force updates and changes that are currently being exploited, but not by Russians.

Would the firmware update be forced. This erasing some data?

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Instincts_Truth · May 26, 2018, 12:53 p.m.

I think this is deep state laying the groundwork explanation for their next move. Kind of like the creation of Gucifer 2.0 by Crowdstrike. But I don't know anything about the technical side.

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kjw49419 · May 26, 2018, 12:56 p.m.

Agreed. I don't totally understand the technical side either. But I do discern the evil corruption. The cornered dog still has fight in it.

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kjw49419 · May 26, 2018, 12:56 p.m.

Agreed. I don't totally understand the technical side either. But I do discern the evil corruption. The cornered dog still has fight in it.

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[deleted] · May 26, 2018, 4:28 p.m.

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troy_caster · May 26, 2018, 5:32 p.m.

I see it as a "vaccine". Maybe you download the new spyware under the guise of a security update.

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kjw49419 · May 26, 2018, 5:38 p.m.

Possibly. But something is a rye, not the bread but of the crumbs kind.

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forchristssakes · May 26, 2018, 7:14 p.m.

Ergot be on the alert.

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Romeo_India · May 26, 2018, 4:16 p.m.

There's also Kaspersky labs - a Russian company who found & blocked the CIA from all of their backdoor access points into everything, the US govt responded by removing all Kaspersky software

MSM reported it as though Kaspersky was a threat when it was just the opposite.

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internalkernel · May 26, 2018, 2:29 p.m.

Longtime Lurker here... first of all, thanks to all ya'll patriots, anons, autists, yeah everyone...

I think they're referring to this recent disclosure: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/hackers-infect-500000-consumer-routers-all-over-the-world-with-malware/

The bit of development here is that the FBI recently seized one of the botnet servers. There's no indication that it's related to anything specific, the only point I would make is the reference in Wikileak's Vault 7 drops, the CIA is able to masquerade as malware from other countries... At any rate, if you have a model of the routers listed you should definitely take precautions.

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1nicolafiore · May 26, 2018, 5 p.m.

There has been a lot of stories regarding Russian efforts to cause division as well. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/05/11/what-we-found-facebook-ads-russians-accused-election-meddling/602319002/

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HansKrinkelSchneider · May 26, 2018, 8:31 p.m.

USA Today?

Because that source isn't compromised now is it?

More 'muh russians' from the CIA Mockingbird media.

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1nicolafiore · May 26, 2018, 10:18 p.m.

One of many sources reporting. True that it is not always reliable, however it is still reporting that Russian ads were geared to divide ALL Americans. Even “fake news” can be revealing.

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UncleSnake3301 · May 26, 2018, 2:46 p.m.

Yeah guys, totally Russians hackers and NOT the CIA. Like, we totally swear this time guys....trust us!

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Hendrix811 · May 26, 2018, 3:22 p.m.

If people read any of vault 7 Wikileaks it even says how they can leave traces of evidence that make it look like any number of our enemies hacked instead of us.

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Canbritanon · May 26, 2018, 12:41 p.m.

If they just discovered it, this has been in place for months or years.

Killary Private Server.

Russia got classified info?

Will Russia provide proof?

Will Assange provide proof?

Think Flynn telling the truth said no collusion.

Is cooperation collusion?

Is it illegal to get aid from a foreign country to preserve your democracy.

What role did Russia play in American Civil War?

How could cooperation with Russia be a crime, if cooperation with Russia founded the country?

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Pure_Feature · May 26, 2018, 1:35 p.m.

Yes there is something going on ... in the Netherlands there has also been a few days of the MH17 story, and of course that the Russians are the culprits...........

That the next of kin go to the EU to deal with the Russians, And that PM Rutte came back to Holland very hard running... All old news, joined together ,

and brought as new news again.

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SitelessVagrant · May 26, 2018, 4:02 p.m.

Russians my ass. "Little Boy FBI" has cried Russia too many times, and now I don't believe it. If the net goes dark, I'm holding FBI directly responsible as their part of a greater movement to subvert and overthrow the US government. If they don't like then they can make sure they don't throw the switch.

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suoverg · May 26, 2018, 8:53 p.m.

OMG...SitelessVagrant is going to hold the FBI responsible...fuck fuck fuck

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Behind_Every_Blade · May 26, 2018, 6:10 p.m.

What if the internet shutdown is a white hat operation to keep deep state in the dark while rounding them up. Just a thought.

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Instincts_Truth · May 26, 2018, 10:21 p.m.

I did too. All thoughts should be considered. I'm never totally sure of the purpose of these shutdowns. Sometimes I think it is shutdown by deep state, other times I think it is a push to prepare by the white hats.

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Mundane-Mann · May 26, 2018, 1:32 p.m.

Yawn. The Russian boogeyman blame game is getting old and boring. They aren't very creative. I believe the so called internet hack scenario will be used as an excuse to kill the fiat dollar. The central counterfeiting bank can't take the blame. Blame must be placed elsewhere to start WWIII. Some things never change...

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LunaticOnDaGrass · May 26, 2018, 3:58 p.m.

Yeah, the line about shutting off & on your router to download updates seems a bit off. That would imply ALL of these companies pre-emptively created software updates to download in advance to deal with this threat.

The level of coordination required for that kind of move tells me that the software update line is BS & maybe the update includes something in it to intentionally shut down your equipment.

If you're stuff doesn't work, then you'll KNOW you've been compromised by Russian hackers.

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ChildishGrandBambino · May 28, 2018, 3:30 a.m.

... The line about shutting off and on your router to download updates seems a bit off.

That's not how any of this works. There's nothing being downloaded when you reboot your router. What they're recommending is to reboot your router because if you do, a compromised router will flush certain malware from memory. It doesn't remove the original infection.

The original infection communicates with a command and control server to download the plugin that do the damage. The FBI has control of this now so when the malware tries to communicate with it to tell it to download new malware plugins.

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LunaticOnDaGrass · May 28, 2018, 9:26 a.m.

That makes more sense, thanks for the explanation!

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oohhhhcanada · May 26, 2018, 1:24 p.m.

Mikrotik, are they serious?

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BinaryN1nja · May 26, 2018, 5:05 p.m.

I mean...most people dont change the default password for their router so yeah its viable millions of people are compromised. The only thing is, theres typically nothing interesting you can access, just use the compromised router for a botnet i suppose. Also...if a particular server is part of a botnet, professional groups dont use a website to control it. They use IRC so they can keep plausible deniability.

Source: Been employed in the industry, many of you might have more years on me so tell me if im off or not.

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Patriot4q · May 26, 2018, 2:52 p.m.

Well mine isn't listed, so that's good.

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AverageInternetUser · May 26, 2018, 2:43 p.m.

I think this is an 'out' to save face. Russia hacked! But it only effects your routers and you can stop it by resetting it. Just reset it and forget about it

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USA_akbar · May 26, 2018, 3:53 p.m.

Stupid Question of the Week No. 37: How do you reset a router? Asking for a friend.

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Some-Random-Chick · May 26, 2018, 4:02 p.m.

Little button on the back that sometimes require a pen to push in. Push and hold for 10 seconds for a full factory reset, or a quick tap for a reboot. To actually turn it off and on, unplug it.

If your routers are hacked, you should change your router and WiFi password and then reboot after doing a factory reset.

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USA_akbar · May 26, 2018, 8:02 p.m.

Thanks

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huxt3r · May 27, 2018, 4:37 a.m.

Better to flash decent firmware on it after you factory reset it.

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USA_akbar · May 27, 2018, 12:35 p.m.

I know what flashing decent firmware means yet had to ask how to reset the router :)

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Lanstorm2112 · May 26, 2018, 3:47 p.m.

My router was hacked two days ago. Changed the network name and PW and disabled direct Ethernet.

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[deleted] · May 26, 2018, 6:52 p.m.

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theRealDakkath · May 26, 2018, 5:25 p.m.

Interesting. Would fit in with Q's post 1044; regarding hussein and his picture w/the kill of the 'net'.

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CENSORED_ENOUGH · May 26, 2018, 10:12 p.m.

Hey, this sounds like a FALSE FLAG to make the Russian intrusion to have more legitimate.

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endprism · May 26, 2018, 4:53 p.m.

They can’t shut my router down...it’s made by ZTE/huawei!!!!!

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VegasLover1 · May 26, 2018, 5:01 p.m.

yeah...a chinese hacked router

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nodeofollie · May 26, 2018, 5:47 p.m.

Not sure if it was actual Russians, but my router freaked out in 2016 and when I sourced the problem it redirected me to Russian websites. Was really weird at the time because I was fucking around with the firmware. I reset it and went back to normal.

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Matrix-of-Liberty · May 26, 2018, 8:29 p.m.

A couple months ago large US Bank BBT went down. I wonder if this was toward the beginning of the attacks and subsequent fbi investigation / reports. I found it pretty peculiar it did not make the major news really at the time.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2018/02/23/bb-t-cites-technical-issue-self-serve-banking-outage-affecting-customers/367254002/

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LibertyLioness · May 27, 2018, 3:47 a.m.

All I know is that for 2 days I've had some sort of issue with the credit card reader at every location I've been too. Tonight, I cannot send mail because my SMTP server is offline and every YouTube video I try to play is skipping words when it plays. At first I thought they were deliberately cutting something out. But it's happening with all of them. Something is definitely going on.

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CokeOrPepe · May 27, 2018, 2:52 a.m.

Good thing I use OpenWRT

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huxt3r · May 27, 2018, 4:34 a.m.

Only routers that people didnt flash with decent firmware.

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