{"id":396700,"date":"2021-05-10T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=396700"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T19:17:10","slug":"limbaugh-institute-lesson-the-government-isnt-the-answer-to-cyber-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/05\/10\/limbaugh-institute-lesson-the-government-isnt-the-answer-to-cyber-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Limbaugh Institute Lesson: The Government Isn\u2019t the Answer for Cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"

TODD: You of course have read about and heard about the ransomware attack on really a backbone portion of the U.S. energy system. This pipeline in Texas. A gang called DarkSide is said to have accomplished this. There is a gentleman who has done more serving in the armed forces than I ever have, well, which is none. His name is Russel L. Honore. He was U.S. Army, retired 2008 and was Katrina leadership. Public speaker. Books on survival, leadership and “Don\u2019t Get Stuck on Stupid!”. I\u2019m looking at his tweet here, he had suspected that this hack, this cyberattack on one of our largest pipelines was perhaps the work of what he calls the domestic terrorism that attacked our Capitol.<\/p>\n

\"\"It\u2019s quite possible this domestic terror group cyberattacked our infrastructure. The FBI needs help. I had thought that buffalo horn man had not — I didn\u2019t know, is he a hacker too? See, this is sort of the Trump Derangement Syndrome. To reach for that, because it affords you the opportunity. I mean, you may well think that. I just find that baffling that one would think that, given that cyberattacks like this are now — they\u2019ve happened to school districts and city governments. And to turn to the FBI in this, I\u2019m sorry. Is it a requirement now that we forget that the Old Executive Office Building got hacked? And we think it was by China and they stole a bunch of personal identifiable information on our veterans and people in the military? I just need to check and see. Are we supposed to pretend that didn\u2019t occur, or that the government is particularly skilled at this or better at it than say private industry?<\/p>\n

It is a frightening thing that people can do this, and we\u2019ve seen people get into our dams, and fortunately they didn\u2019t, in fact, you know, flood a neighborhood or flood an area. This is a focus. It should be, for us. Because it could be catastrophic. But to turn and say, “Well, it\u2019s probably the January 6th rioters who did this.” No. No, it\u2019s probably not. It\u2019s almost certainly not. The AP thinks it\u2019s this hacker group. Of course it is likely to be that. But look, there is in this clip you\u2019re about to hear, to me this is just an absolute classic. It\u2019s almost post-doctorate work from the ever-continuing education we all get from the Limbaugh Institute. Rush explains here why he defended Apple\u2019s refusal to give the FBI backdoor access to an iPhone.<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: This ransomware stuff. It\u2019s a new kind of computer hacking, and it is becoming more widely proliferated out there. And essentially the way it works is, you can trigger it with a phishing email. You can fall victim to a phishing attack. It generally can\u2019t happen unless you help it to happen. It\u2019s not as though your computer is invaded without you knowing it. You get an email or something — a message that looks legitimate from someplace. And you click on a link because it\u2019s requiring you to, suggesting you do.<\/p>\n

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