your very welcome, this place is absolutely primo primed

i have a f**ktonne of supplies including but not limited to non-perishable food/fuel/water/personal hygiene/first aid/pet food and sundries. a 2300W gmc petrol generator for operting my well pump and charging eleccy items including my brand new phev for out of area ops. a wayfarer life-saver water filter good for purifying up to 5000 litres of well water which at the peak of the drought was spewing up 15 litres of water a minute for well over half an hour. i have a solar powered basecamp2 caravan that has a full kitchen, shower and khazi if the shtf. a log burner in the house and a great big old full log store.

so yeah i'm not gonna be like the goober i saw in tescos during the early days of the covids filming himself in the loo roll aisle at tescos screaming "i can't believe it there's no f**kun bogroll!".

it is something that folks need to take on board, isn't difficult and doesn't cost much and you can rotate through the stocks as they are all essential.

take sweden as an example of how a grown up arsed country treats it's citizens with regard to this real and existential threat we are living with in these troubled times

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you don't need to prep like some deranged maga yank nutjob just try and cover your bases in case things go tits up.

this all sound a tad ott?

well, recently in france (11/12 oct) over 700 supermarkets were on the end of a cyber attack that raised the temperature of their chiller cabinets to between 50 and 80 degrees C ruining millions of euros of perishable foods overnight....

According to investigations reported by Le Monde and Reuters, attackers accessed connected refrigeration controls and:

1. Raised defrost temperatures to approximately 50°C, with some equipment reportedly reaching 80°C.

2. Extended defrost cycles from one hour to eight hours, delaying intervention.

3. Caused refrigerated and frozen food to spoil, with some stores experiencing equipment damage and fires.

The attack affected chains including Intermarché, Carrefour, Monoprix, Netto and Coopérative U.

so, if that isn't a bit of a wake up sheeple then ....

One supermarket in Gradignan reported €21,000 worth of destroyed stock at purchase price. National losses could run into tens of millions of euros.

How did the hackers manage it?
The compromised systems included refrigeration controllers manufactured by Danish company Danfoss.

Initially, attention focused on security vulnerabilities in older equipment. However, on 22 October, France's national cybersecurity agency, ANSSI, indicated that the attackers appeared to have exploited more basic security weaknesses, including internet-exposed controllers and inadequate access protection.

Financial Times

In other words, relatively ordinary supermarket equipment could potentially be manipulated remotely if insufficiently secured.

Who was responsible?
Nobody has yet been publicly identified.

The French authorities are investigating, with Europol assisting. The possibilities include criminal hackers, politically motivated attackers or state-linked actors, but there is currently insufficient evidence to attribute responsibility.

AP News
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why this is particularly concerning? given our earlier discussion about sweden's civil preparedness booklet, this incident is a rather striking example of why modern societies need resilience planning.

a cyberattack didn't have to destroy a power station, attack a distribution depot or interrupt a country's electricity supply. by compromising everyday refrigeration equipment, the perpetrators damaged part of the food supply chain directly.

and the consequences could have been much worse had the attack coincided with wider power or transport disruption.

for further reading, these are particularly informative accounts:

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the extraordinary thing is that this wasn't a hypothetical national-resilience exercise. it happened less than two weeks ago, in one of europe's largest economies.

so get yourself a little bit of wiggle room sorted and stock up on the essentials. think about having a decent stock of tinned grub, water, fuel, prescription meds, pet food, a battery or wind-up radio, couple of charged power banks, some cash, printed emergency contacts, a decent first aid kit, bog rolls/wetwipes/hand sanitiser, molto bin bags and personal care items like handsoap/toothpaste etc. keep your car tank at at least half full and have a couple of jerry cans of fuel spare if you are able.

it won't cost you a fortune and you can rotate the supply around as they are all essential items pretty much that you would use up anyway. hopefully not the first aid kit though.

bon chance

Posted By: Tombs, Oct 23, 12:32:15