CSPAN becomes Russia Today

[Elixir]

I've never seen anything like this... the "Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network" pre-empted by the Kremlin's own programming.
Putin showing us what he can do? Or "internal routing error" - WUT?

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/12/media/c-span-russia-today/

If anyone else was watching, what did you think at the time?

 

[Malintent]

Hacked. an "Internal Routing Issue" can be caused only by one thing... a network reconfiguration. Since the likelihood that any organization reconfigures their internal production network is nearly 0, this is 99% likely to be a result of unauthorized access by a threat agent.

To make an analogy, organizations change things all the time... it is like doing your laundry once a week... there is always something to do. Network reconfigurations are more along the lines of moving your washing machine from one side of your basement to the other... not gonna happen that often, if ever.. .and only if you are buying some big new expensive item.. like a new washing machine.. AND you are doing new plumbing to put it somewhere else, rather than just replacing it inline.

 

[Elixir]

Hacked. an "Internal Routing Issue" can be caused only by one thing... a network reconfiguration. Since the likelihood that any organization reconfigures their internal production network is nearly 0, this is 99% likely to be a result of unauthorized access by a threat agent.

That's consistent with my limited experience in these kinds of things. If something like that happened on my network, it would be cause for a complete shutdown and re-configuration of all our firewalls. Not a peep (that I've heard) from c-span on this.

 

[Elixir]

Lights Out at mention of Russia

Possibly related:

http://nypost.com/2017/01/12/power-outage-interrupts-mike-pompeos-confirmation-hearing/

The confirmation hearing for Donald Trump’s CIA nominee got off to eerie start Thursday when the lights suddenly went out just as a senator was mentioning Russian interference in the presidential election.

About 10 minutes into the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing for GOP Rep. Mike Pompeo the room went dark during Sen. Mark Warner’s opening statement.

A few people were weirded-out:

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) tweeted: “Lights suspiciously went off in hearing room for new CIA director, Mike Pompe[o]. Hmmm… ”

Now it is said that a power company was "working in the area, but 10 hours after the event, so explanation whatsoever had been offered. Then, just hours later, the event described in the OP took place. I'm not too big on conspiracy theories*, but for those who are, there seems to be a mother lode here.



* I object to the term "conspiracy theory" as most of them are, at best, conspiracy hypotheses and mostly non-falsifiable.

 

[laughing dog]

I've never seen anything like this... the "Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network" pre-empted by the Kremlin's own programming.
Putin showing us what he can do? Or "internal routing error" - WUT?

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/12/media/c-span-russia-today/

If anyone else was watching, what did you think at the time?

Maybe C-SPAN was testing to see how many people were actually paying attention to it.

 

[ElectEngr]

Я, например, приветствовать наших новых русских повелителей

Later,
ElectEngr

 

[RavenSky]

Я, например, приветствовать наших новых русских повелителей

Later,
ElectEngr

 

[RavenSky]

And yes, after being surprised to learn that RT is a Russian media source, I was ready to pull out my colander

 

[barbos]

Я, например, приветствовать приветствую наших новых русских повелителей

Later,
ElectEngr

Again, learn the language of your russian overlords!

 

[TV and credit cards]

And yes, after being surprised to learn that RT is a Russian media source, I was ready to pull out my colander

And I bought plastic. What was I thinking?

 

[lpetrich]

Я, например, приветствую наших новых русских повелителей
YA, naprimer, privetstvuyu nashikh novykh russkikh poveliteley
I, for one, welcome our new overlords Russian

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