Red Mosquito

North Carolina Governor: "There will be plenty of gas as long as you don't panic buy."

North Carolinians buy twice the daily average for 3 days in a row.

So fucking dumb. We have to drive up to Chapel Hill and back tomorrow and hope we can refill on the way back at some podunk country store that isn’t out of gas

Ruddo and B set to meet

E.H. Ruddock wrote:So fucking dumb. We have to drive up to Chapel Hill and back tomorrow and hope we can refill on the way back at some podunk country store that isn’t out of gas

Text me. There's a podunk gas station north of UNC.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:So fucking dumb. We have to drive up to Chapel Hill and back tomorrow and hope we can refill on the way back at some podunk country store that isn’t out of gas

I thought you had fuel reserves, prepper?

spike wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:So fucking dumb. We have to drive up to Chapel Hill and back tomorrow and hope we can refill on the way back at some podunk country store that isn’t out of gas

I thought you had fuel reserves, prepper?

Nah solar and wind are the way to go for the bunker. Gas will eventually run out in the end times. Plus i don’t want Burt to come leech off of me

Peeps wrote:the most amazing part of the hackers is the fact they admitted they were behind it but did not expect to cause the pipeline to shutdown and cause shortages and prices rising

like, look we are bad guys but NOT that bad

Darkside kind of underestimated America's conviction to capitalism

The company halted operations because its billing system was compromised, three people briefed on the matter told CNN, and they were concerned they wouldn't be able to figure out how much to bill customers for fuel they received.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/12/politics/colonial-pipeline-ransomware-payment/

"The public good means nothing if we can't get paid."
I'm sure there's more to it than that but wow fuck them for getting hacked so hard.

The journalist Kim Zetter seems to really be on top of the Colonial Pipeline story.
https://zetter.substack.com/p/ransomware-infection-on-colonial
https://twitter.com/KimZetter


Also Darkside is pretty interesting, and evil
They use common business practices to maximize their criminal profits.
Like sending out public press releases, selling software (ransomware in this case) as a service to other crime groups, and providing technical support among other things.

Great posts sir. We think "oh, it was just the billing systems" but some of these are much harder to detect and eradicate than that.

nice to see verb and spike put aside their differences

I love the tactical footwear

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

If you look closely you can see how small hat guy’s penis is

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E.H. Ruddock wrote:

smart move, double bagging.

Just saw a pic of someone using a laundry basket. With holes in the sides.

she votes

Barely even news at this point.

BurtReynolds wrote:she votes

Who do you think she voted for?