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    Default Re: Train Derailment - US Members of Congress on-board

    Here is an apropos cartoon I found in my local newspaper yesterday:


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    From my distance, I won't call this a "false flag".

    I think it was an attempt to wipe out the REPs in Congress.

    Imagine the implications, if most of the people on that list were now dead.

    At the very least, it will have seriously put the wind up them.


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    I was thinking and asking myself why it would happen on a bend where the train would not be going very fast, it didn't make sense, if it was a deliberate act.

    Then it struck me that on a bend, the driver hasn't got time to see it and stop the train in time.
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    Trying to annihilate a ‘job lot’? Try to copy the Polish demolition of government https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010...e_Tu-154_crash
    but by a trainload of opposition to the ‘dark side’...
    So unlucky, this fiasco was far too obvious, so what's next..?
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    Are we "at war" yet?!

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    If it was an attack why not use a fuel truck instead of a garbage truck or am I missing something?
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    From zetatalk.com , take it for what its worth........................

    Greenbrier Train Crash

    The day after the State of the Union address, which was widely applauded and well received by the American public, and the day before the Republican FISA memo was to be released by the White House, an Amtrak train - carrying numerous GOP representatives, and their families, and including the Speaker of the House Paul Ryan - narrowly missed being derailed. Per the Zetas, this was a deliberate attempt to kill, maim, and punish GOP members who were allowing the Deep State to be exposed and prosecuted.

    Compare the aftermath to other train wrecks, which did result in derailment. In the Seattle wreck the train was traveling at 80 mph. In the Bronx wreck the train was traveling at 70 mph. In the Greenbrier wreck, the train was traveling at 70 mph but did not derail. The Greenbrier crash had extra impetus to derail, as it encountered a garbage truck. Dead stop. The Greenbrier train just demolished the garbage truck, and did not derail. No Congressmen or family members were injured beyond a mild concussion. Per the Zetas, an intervention occurred.

    ZetaTalk Insight 2/28/2018: This was an attempt to punish those who had released the FISA memo, Republicans on the committee, and those who were in hot pursuit of criminal conduct among Obama’s FBI and DOJ in support of Hillary. The New World Order agenda was certain that Hillary would win, and they would be rewarded. The Junta in charge of the US defanged the CIA last November when Dunford’s Marines landed at Langley and then proceeded to cleanses the FBI. With the firing of McCabe, a Hillary cohort, and the release of a memo on FISA crimes now to be public knowledge, the New World Order crowd is in high panic mode.

    A frightened animal will get vicious, attack in a random manner, even biting itself by accident. If they feel cornered, blind rage sets in. One should not expect logical behavior. Thus finding the Russian collusion nonsense about to end with no impeachment of Trump, and seeing that the Democrats in command of the FBI and DOJ during the past administration are about to themselves be prosecuted, evidence of their crimes in hand, they are trying to intimidate the Republicans who are running Congress at present. Speaker Ryan was on that train.

    The hope was that this train would derail and that there would be many deaths, as usually happens when a train going 70 mph slams into an unmovable object. Yes, there was intervention to prevent derailment. Those on the dump truck were not conscious, nor even intending to cross the tracks, but the truck was driven there by assassins who then ensured the driver would not awaken in time to pull the truck back by giving him a fatal heart attack. These details are unlikely to come out in the news, as it is always viewed that the public could not stand hearing that there is a secret war in Washington DC. It will be whitewashed

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    Another AMTRAK Collision

    Sunday morning, traveling at about 80 mph, an Amtrak trains collides with a freight train. 2:35 AM. 50 passengers injured, 2 dead. Traveling from NY to Miami.

    Something up with Amtrak? Should Amtrak have been used to ferry members of Congress to White Sulfur Springs ?

    The collision happened near the Columbia area of South Carolina.

    ref: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/04...-reported.html


    Quote The collision occured about 2:35 a.m. in Cayce, S.C., near Charleston Highway and Pine Ridge Road, authorities said.

    The Amtrak train was No. 91, traveling between New York and Miami. The Amtrak train's lead engine derailed, as did some passenger cars, an Amtrak statement said.

    The passenger train had eight crew members and approximately 139 passengers aboard.

    No immediate information was available about the CSX train.
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    The amount of injured has been bumped up to 70. The freight train was carrying diesel fuel.

    As of noon local east coast time, the Amtrak train folks say 59 mph at the time, not 80.. And that injuries are now 116 taken to the hospital. 2 dead, Amtrak employees.

    At 80 mph on a curve not designed for speed, a train could easily fly off or the track could split (destabilize from it's supports).. High speed tracks are specially designed, and one can see the amazing speeds that the Japanese Bullet trains travel..

    But an Amtrak train is another story.

    Congress has been witholding budgets from AMTRAK, as early as 2005/6 and a major 'stink' in 2015 happened.

    Here is possibly where the material for conspiracy may be built..

    May 17, 2016 - A House panel approved a measure Wednesday that cuts funding for Amtrak, less than a day after a train derailment left at least seven people dead and many more injured.

    The Republican-led House Appropriations Committee voted 30-21 to reduce grants to Amtrak.

    In 2008, the Democrat-controlled Congress and the Bush White House were at odds over an Amtrak bill. Democrats wanted to double Amtrak's budget. The Bush administration wanted to zero it out.

    In 1970 President Nixon pushed forward the Rail Passenger transportation act - this sets the groundwork for in 1971, 21 railroad companies agree to "cooperate" to work together for the AMTRAK formation.

    In 1973. Congress passes Amtrak Improvement Act and the Regional Rail Reorganization Act, mandating transfer of operation of the Northeast Corridor to Amtrak. Old rails are used. Amtrak orders new engines, and cars.

    In 1976 Amtrak gets charge of maintenance.

    1977 Amtrak gets a $1.75 Billion dollar improvement budget to make safe the railways.

    On April 2, 1980, the Silver Star was involved in a head-on collision with a Seaboard Coast Line freight train in Lakeview, North Carolina. One hundred and twenty-three people were injured.

    1984 was a bad year for Amtrak

    On July 4,1984, two people sitting in a parked truck died when the truck was hit by an Amtrak train in Elgin, S.C

    On July 11,1984, Amtrak's Silver Star hit a tanker truck at a grade crossing in McBee, S.C., killing two people, the engineer and the truck driver.

    On July 23,1984, two Amtrak trains collided head-on on a viaduct 80 feet above a Queens street in NYC, killing one man and injuring 125 others.

    On January 4, 1987, the Colonial collided with three Conrail locomotives in Chase, Maryland due to the locomotives overruning signals. Sixteen people were killed, 164 were injured.

    On September 28, 1989, The Crescent collided with a fire truck that was responding to a fire, about 80 miles south of Washington, DC. Three people, including two firefighters, were killed. More than 70 people were injured.

    On December 19, 1989, The San Joaquin Flyer collided with a truck carrying Hershey's chocolate syrup. All cars derailed. The driver of the truck was killed as well as two train engineers. Dozens were injured.

    On September 22, 1993, a barge collided with the Big Bayou Canot swing bridge in Mobile, Alabama and pushed it out of alignment. Moments later, the Sunset Limited crossed the bridge at 70 miles per hour (110 km/h), causing the bridge to collapse. Fuel from the locomotives caught fire. Forty-seven people were killed and 103 were injured in Amtrak's deadliest accident.

    On February 16, 1996, the Capitol Limited collided with a Maryland Area Regional Commuter passenger train in Silver Spring, Maryland after the latter had overrun signals. Eleven people were killed, 26 were injured due to the collision and subsequent fire.

    On March 15, 1999, the City of New Orleans collided with a semi-truck on a grade crossing in Bourbonnais, Illinois and derailed due to a track circuit fault activating the barriers too late. Eleven people were killed, 122 were injured.

    On May 6, 2003, the Silver Star collided with a truck on a grade crossing near Hinesville, Georgia. The truck driver and train driver were killed.On August 2, 2003, a train collided with a dump truck on a grade crossing in Raleigh, North Carolina. Two people in the truck were killed, fifteen passengers were injured.

    On November 30, 2007, the Pere Marquette ran into the rear of a freight train in Chicago, Illinois. Three people were admitted to hospital.

    On January 25, 2008, at approximately 11:40 p.m. the Sunset Limited struck a tractor-trailer on a grade crossing in Northeast Harris County, Texas.

    On May 13, 2010, the Piedmont collided with a truck on a grade crossing in Mebane, North Carolina. Twelve people were injured.

    On June 3, 2011, an Amtrak train collided with a Metra commuter train at Union Station, Chicago, Illinois. One of the trains derailed, five people were injured.

    On June 24, 2011, a truck collided with the California Zephyr on a grade crossing near Reno, Nevada. At least six people were killed.

    On July 11, 2011, the Downeaster collided with a garbage truck on a grade crossing in North Berwick, Maine and caught fire. The truck driver was killed.

    On October 12, 2011, the San Joaquin overran signals and collided with the Coast Starlight in Oakland, California. Seventeen people were injured.

    On November 29, 2012, the Silver Star collided with a dump truck on a grade crossing in Orlando, Florida. The truck driver was killed, seven passengers were injured.

    On October 28, 2014, an Amtrak train collided with a truck on a grade crossing north of Lafayette, Indiana. Twenty-four people were injured.

    On the evening of June 27, 2017, two CSX workers were fatally struck by a southbound Amtrak train approaching Union Station in Washington, D.C. after exiting a stopped freight train to check out a technical issue.

    On January 14, 2018, Amtrak train 89 collided with a SUV that went around a lowered crossing arm in Whitakers, North Carolina, killing a pastor and his wife. There was no injuries reported on the train.

    On January 16, 2018, an Amtrak Capitol Corridor train collided with a vehicle near Dixon, California, killing a 21-year old man. No injuries were reported on the train.

    On January 31, 2018, a chartered train carrying Republican Party lawmakers from Washington, D.C. to a retreat in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia collides with a garbage truck near Crozet, Virginia. One person confirmed dead.

    and today's crash - NTSB is trying to figure it out - why was an AMTRAK train traveling so fast through a freight yard.. And for that matter, why was the Congressional Charter (subject of this thread) traveling so fast on a blind curve in a congested residential area?

    On February 4, 2018, an Amtrak passenger "Silver Star" train travelling from New York to Miami, Florida collided with a CSX freight train at Cayce, South Carolina and was derailed. Two people were killed and more than 70 were injured amongst the eight crew and 139 passengers on board the Line 91 passenger train.

    There have been derailments, not considered as "crashes" with other vehicles/trains

    On June 10, 1971, the City of New Orleans derailed in Salem, Illinois due to a seized axle. Eleven people were killed, 163 were injured. Equipment failure.

    On March 18, 1973, the Broadway Limited derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. One person was killed, nineteen were injured.

    On August 12, 1974, the Silver Star derailed in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Twenty-eight people were injured.

    On March 5, 1984, the Silver Star derailed in Kittrell, North Carolina due to a broken axle on a locomotive. Fifty-two people were injured.

    On May 29, 1984, the Capitol Limited derailed in Connellsville, Pennsylvania due to a collapsed culvert. Twenty-three people were injured.

    On July 7, 1984, the Montrealer derailed at Williston, Vermont due to a trackbed washout. Five people were killed, nearly 140 were injured.

    On April 16, 1985, the California Zephyr derailed in Granby, Colorado due to a landslide. Thirty-two people were injured.

    On October 9, 1986, Twelve cars derailed in rural south-central Wisconsin, killing a crewman and injuring at least 33 other people.

    On December 12, 1990, the Night Owl derailed on a curve due to excessive speed and collided with a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority passenger train in Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts. Four hundred and fifty-three people were injured.

    On July 31, 1991, the Silver Star derailed in Lugoff, South Carolina due to a set of points moving under the train. Eight people were killed, 76 were injured.

    On April 29, 1992, the Colonial collided with a dump truck on a grade crossing in Newport News, Virginia and derailed. The truck driver was killed, 54 passengers were injured.

    On August 12, 1992, the Colonial derailed near Newport News, Virginia due to sabotage of a set of points. Seventy-four people were injured.

    On May 16, 1994, the Silver Meteor collided with an out of gauge freight train near Selma, North Carolina and derailed. One person was killed and 97 were injured.

    On August 3, 1994, the Lake Shore Limited derailed in Batavia, New York. One hundred and eighteen people were injured.

    On October 9, 1995, the Sunset Limited derailed in Palo Verde, Arizona due to sabotage. One person was killed, 78 were injured.

    On September 11, 2001, the Texas Eagle collided with a Union Pacific freight train near Marshall, Texas and derailed. Six people were injured.

    On April 18, 2002, a train derailed near Crescent City, Florida due to a track defect. Four people were killed, 142 were injured.

    On July 29, 2002, the Capitol Limited derailed near Kensington, Maryland due to a track defect. Ninety-five people were injured.

    On February 1, 2012, the Wolverine collided with a truck on a grade crossing in Leoni Township, Michigan and was derailed. Ten people were injured.

    On October 21, 2012, the Wolverine derailed in Niles, Michigan due to excessive speed on a curve. Eight people were injured.

    On March 9, 2015, the Carolinian collided with a truck on a grade crossing in Halifax, North Carolina and derailed. Fifty-five people were injured.

    On May 12, 2015, the Northeast Regional derailed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania due to excessive speed on a curve. Eight people were killed, more than 200 were injured.

    On October 5, 2015, the Vermonter struck a landslide and derailed in Northfield, Vermont. Seven people were injured.

    On March 14, 2016, the Southwest Chief derailed in Cimarron, Kansas after the track had been damaged by an agricultural vehicle. Twenty-eight people were injured.

    On April 3, 2016, the Palmetto struck a backhoe obstructing the line and derailed in Chester, Pennsylvania. Two track workers were killed, 41 people were injured.

    On July 2, 2017, the Cascades derailed in Steilacoom, Washington. Several passengers suffered minor injuries.

    On December 18, 2017, Cascades train 501 derailed on a overpass of Interstate 5 in Pierce County, Washington, killing 3 and injuring more than 100 others.

    Can't wait to take a trip on Nixon's Legacy rail system? Anyone yet take a look at who was (and what party) was in Congress and the WhiteHouse during periods of maximum crash/derailments? Coincidence? Conspiracy? or innocent "accidents" ?
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    The amount injured has been bumped to 116 and two dead, Amtrak employees.

    I updated the above post with some history on Amtrak, who put the 'wheels in motion' (Nixon), and the 'track record' of derailments, and accidents of the Amtrak carrier system.

    To be done, a cross-correlation analysis of political parties in power (both in Amtrak and Congress/Whitehouse), and budgetary manipulation to see if there have been conspiracies, or just "innocent" accidents.

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    There something going on. There was just a train accident just the other week. Also that Hoboken New Jersey train accident the other year is suspicious also and was swept under carpet.

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    Did anyone catch this? (High-octane speculation here, as Joseph Farrell would say. )
    Anonymous 02/01/18 (Thu) 00:23:55 5648a9 No.231746
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    >Obviously the train slowed down so must have been warned…

    I think it was warned.

    Helicopter surveillance saw the truck and warned the engineer.

    I'm guessing truck was kitty korner between the crossbucks with the back end (dumpster lift hydraulics boom) facing the oncoming train.

    Train hits boom, spins truck around and rips body off the cab, leaving the cab at the crossing. Train drags truck body down the tracks until the body rolls off down the embankment.

    Question is, if truck tried to run crossing, why didn't occupants flee cab when getting stuck, unless train hit the truck just as it was trying to run the crossing.?

    Have to figure, though, if aerial surveillance sees truck and warns engineer, the truck had to have been there for a while, so why didn't occupants flee?

    If the truck was there as a plant, the only sense I can make of it is that the occupants were patsies, i.e., they were told they were only going to force the train to stop, on the idea of an antifa protest.

    I don't think surveillance would see a truck headed towards the crossing and tell the engineer to brake, assuming the truck would stop on the tracks. However, it could be that the access road was closed and any traffic was regarded as a danger.

    Key is how fast does an amtrak train usually go through there, and how fast was this one going. If this train was slower, then why?
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    Drone.
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    Alex Jones is interviewing his source called Zak.

    Zak says that the number "91" , the number of the train, is a code number for all the deep state agents. The number 91 has been repeated a few times recently.
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    Wasn't "91" the number for Maxwell Smart's (played by Don Adams)partner and love interest (played by Babara Feldon) in the USA tv show Get Smart? For those who do not know, this tv show was about American spies fighting the evil forces of Chaos.

    Never mind, it was 99. Not 91.

    I should delete this post as stupid, but whatever.
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    Sabotage all along?

    Federal officials focus on why railroad switch was set in the wrong position in S.C. Amtrak crash that killed 2

    Who threw the switch?

    Why would a train go so fast (read numerous trains so far) in areas that they should be going slowly, and watching diligently for anything out of the ordinary?

    Is there a defect in the surveillance methods?

    Why wouldn't as Bill points out, there be air surveillance for a train carrying so many officials, responsible for so many aspects of the US's operation? Will the Dems have such surveillance and what's the history behind "accidents" following the Dems around?

    Quote However, he added that investigators have been unable to recover the event data recorders from either train in part because of the extent of the damage.

    Sumwalt said there was “. . . catastrophic damage to each of the locomotives,” adding that the Amtrak locomotive “. . . was not recognizable at all.”


    SIGNAL FAILURE (again)..

    Quote Anderson said CSX owns and controls the Columbia Subdivision tracks where the crash occurred and is responsible for overseeing the dispatching of trains and signal systems.
    and consider, who is sabotaging (if that is the case), the signalling system for the rails? Is that a form of hacking happening (external sources), or internal sabotage.. or ?

    Quote Anderson said, adding, “. . . the signals and particularly the switches are controlled by CSX.”

    He said he did not know the reason for the signal outage. Anderson said the Amtrak train would normally travel on the main line track, not the section of the track where the collision occurred.

    “As I said, control of which train is on which track is within the authority of the dispatcher and the host railroad that controls the switch,” Anderson said.

    Tom Allen, program manager for the South Carolina Office of Regulatory Staff, which oversees rail safety in the state, said the collision could have been the result of a switch issue that sent the Amtrak train away from the main track and toward the parked freight train. But he emphasized it will be up to federal investigators to determine the cause.

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    Quote Posted by Satori (here)
    Wasn't "91" the number for Maxwell Smart's partner and love interest in the USA tv show Get Smart?
    I dunno, but I think the Vegas massacre had a 91 to it, not that I've been keeping up with that lately. And there's another very recent "91" I didn't understand. Zak is sure it's a code command.
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    Researching - can train signals (and switches) be hacked?

    ouch.. yes it seems

    https://www.popsci.com/european-trai...ble-to-hacking

    Many of the risks stem from new, internet-dependent automated systems.

    Motherboard reports:

    Quote The issues included lack of authentication protections, systems using very old operating systems, and hard-coded passwords for remote access.

    There are also worrying design choices in the trains themselves, such as having entertainment devices for customers and engineering systems on the same network, meaning that accessing the former may lead to a compromise of the latter.
    What a trophy for a hacker? If they managed to hack the Amtrak lines, especially causing Congress (Reps) harm.. Is that insidious or is that what happened?

    The Independent in UK says British train lines are hacked at least 4 times a year !

    http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...-a7135026.html

    Quote The UK rail network has been infiltrated in four major cyber attacks over the past year according to cyber security firm Darktrace.

    Darktrace, the private firm responsible for the cyber safety of a large part of the UK rail network, hasn’t released much information on the nature of the attacks, or who was behind them, but has said they seemed to be exploratory rather than disruptive in intention.

    This has, however, raised some fears for passenger security as experts say that hackers infiltrating the system to cause damage to the rail network is a real possibility.
    "Sergey Gordeychik, a security researcher at Kaspersky Lab in Moscow, told Sky News that as well as being able to gain access to harmless things like information boards, hackers could access larger computer management systems that control tains and signals.

    "Gordeychik said that if malicious hackers “have enough knowledge, then they can create real disaster related to train safety.“

    "Dave Palmer, the chief technology officer of Darktrace, told the Telegraph “In an era of imperfect defences and increasingly complex networks, determined threats can always get in. Today, all businesses can be affected, regardless of size or sector.”
    OK since CSX controls the switches are they secure, have they ever been hacked/assaulted in cyberspace?

    YES - (oye)..

    from - http://www.risidata.com/Database/P90

    Quote The Sobig computer virus was blamed for shutting down train signaling systems throughout the East coast of the US. The virus infected the computer system at CSX Corp.‘s Jacksonville, Fla., headquarters, shutting down signaling, dispatching and other systems at about 1:15 a.m. EDT, CSX spokesman Adam Hollingsworth said (#2).

    Impact:
    The Sobig infection resulted in a slowdown of major applications, including dispatching and signal systems. As a result, passenger and freight train traffic was halted immediately, including the morning commuter train service in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area. The virus disrupted the CSXT telecommunications network upon which certain systems rely, including signal, dispatching and other operating systems. (#1)

    According to Amtrak spokesman Dan Stessel, ten Amtrak trains were affected in the morning. Trains between Pittsburgh and Florence, S.C. were halted because of dark signals and one regional Amtrak train from Richmond, Va., to Washington and New York was delayed for more than two hours. Long-distance trains were delayed between four and six hours.

    There were some residual delays in Amtrak service from Washington to Richmond, Va., and points south, ``Most of the delays are in the 15 to 30-minute range on trains that travel through CSX territory,’’ Stessel said. (#2)

    Action Description: "CSX will work to protect its computer systems from further intrusion", Hollingsworth said. (#2)
    Maybe CSX didn't really fix the problem and that CSX (the maintainer of the switches/signals) had been hacked with a backdoor just waiting for high value targets to pass thru the system.

    This potentially looks bad.

    (Note to Bill - this may be the smoking gun in the system, CSX's 2003 infiltration lain in a backdoor.. Considering the quantity of high value targets that travel from NY to DC and throughout the Amtrak system.. Possibly folks looking up more of the origin of the creators and deployers of the Sobig virus would help background research.. B.)
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    This was just discussed on InfoWars Live with Insider Zach claiming it was indeed hacked.

    A few days ago, "Q" cryptically alluded to this also in reference to (then) upcoming false flags with a symbol for 2 x parallel train tracks...
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    Quote Posted by KiwiElf (here)
    This was just discussed on InfoWars Live with Insider Zach claiming it was indeed hacked.

    A few days ago, "Q" cryptically alluded to this also in reference to (then) upcoming false flags with a symbol for 2 x parallel train tracks...
    Lots of folks read PA Kiwi

    tracking back, in 2000, 3 years prior CSX was having switch and signal problems.

    Here is the coincidence.. 3 years prior to SoBig, SendSafe was being deployed. Testing out apparently how to create payloads transferred by email to target computers.

    Quote 3.4 Conjecture: Send-Safe and Sobig
    The Send-Safe software appears to have direct links to the Sobig virus.
    from security firm analyzing the patterns and code within, checking for who else uses that particular section of code snippets.. :

    Quote Within two days after Sobig was released, an estimated $50 million in damages were reported in the US alone.

    China had reported over 30% of email traffic had been infected by Sobig, equivalent to over 20 million users!

    After interrupting freight operations and grounding Air Canada, Sobig went on to cripple computing operations within even the most advanced technology companies, such as Lockheed Martin.

    Sobig was so virulent that on November 5, 2003 Microsoft, in coordination with the FBI, Secret Service, and Interpol, setup the Anti-Virus Reward Program.

    Backed by $5 million from Microsoft, the program offered a $250,000 bounty for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the Sobig author.

    As the one year anniversary of the Anti-Virus Reward Program bounty for Sobig approaches, we felt this was an appropriate time to publicly release the current state of our Sobig forensic investigation.

    Appropriately, the authors of this document have chosen to release it anonymously for many reasons, some of which are:

    • By releasing the information publicly, we hope to increase tips to law enforcement concerning the Sobig authorship and spur efforts toward apprehension of the malware author(s);

    • This document shows how computer forensics can identify virus authors. The computer forensic methods demonstrated throughout this document have been utilized to successfully identify authors of other viruses as well;

    • Our focus is the objective analysis of Sobig. It is our contention, position, and belief that associating this paper with any specific company, organization, group, or individual will only serve to detract from the investigation.
    and

    Quote Research indicates that Russlan Ibragimov of Moscow, Russia, and/or Ibragimov’s development team, authored the Sobig virus.

    Ibragimov himself is the author of Send-Safe, a bulk mailing tool product that was explicitly
    designed for sending unsolicited email (spam).

    Our investigation will demonstrate:
    • Advanced knowledge: Ibragimov has demonstrated an advanced knowledge of Sobig outbreaks.

    • The releases of Send-Safe coincide with Sobig releases;

    • New features in Send-Safe coincide with Sobig features;

    • A specific spam group that use Send-Safe was observed relaying through Sobig-infected
    systems as much as two weeks before the official outbreak.
    This same group has been observed using specific versions of Send-Safe prior to public release (using pre-released software);

    The time that the group was observed using Sobig (prior to public announcement) corresponds with the Internet Storm Center recording an increase in port scans for Sobig-infected systems.

    • Necessary (coding) skills:
    Based on the attributes and overall functionality of Sobig, the developer would require the following skills:
    • Knowledge of Microsoft Visual C++;
    • Self-compressing executables;
    • Email and spam;
    • Proxies.

    Ibragimov has demonstrated these skills and knowledge: Send-Safe is a spam tool designed to send email using proxies, written in Microsoft Visual C++, and self-compressed. (Ibragimov developed Send-Safe)

    • Source code access: Sobig and Send-Safe share a common source code base.

    • Unique source code creates unique opcodes within the executable code.

    Both the Sobig and Send-Safe software share large sections of common opcode
    sequences, implying the same source code;

    The common source code is used to both generate and send email;

    • The email headers are unique to Send-Safe;

    • Sobig includes code for an email header that it does not use.

    This unused code appears in the same order as the Send-Safe executable – and the code is used in Send-Safe;

    • Ibragimov has not publicly released the source code to Send-Safe (or any of his other
    programs, to our knowledge).

    Send-Safe predates Sobig by a few years, indicating Ibragimov had access to the original code base used to develop Sobig;

    • Ibragimov has demonstrated a pattern of reusing source code.

    Large blocks of opcodes found in Send-Safe appear in other programs created by Ibragimov.

    • Plausible motive: As Send-Safe provides a list of open proxies to subscribers, there is a clear financial motive for Ibragimov to have created the Sobig worm.

    • As Sobig opens additional ports, this provides more open proxies for Send-Safe subscribers.
    Based on these items that have been identified, we contend that Ruslan Ibragimov, or Ibragimov’s development team, authored Sobig in order to support and extend the Send-Safe customer base.
    Here is the security report:

    http://www.oreilly.com/spamkings/WhoWroteSobig.pdf

    It is logical to assume, there was a variant of SoBig on the CSX computers somewhere which then even if some of the CSX computers were "cleared" of the trojan/backdoor, that some still remained and proceeded to allow for a backdoor. (and could spread BACKWARDS one again into already cleared computers to re-infect; that is part of the network infiltration characteristic of this worm/spyware).

    It is my belief the FBI/Secret Service should look at that report that potentially Ibragimov, or Ibragimov’s development team, authored Sobig in order to support and extend the Send-Safe basic code and to then potentially allow for a more current group to have access to the US Railway system.

    Russian Hacking? or someone else using an old back door.

    Who is Ibragimov ? where is he now, and would he have knowledge of the CSX backdoor hacks?

    A dialog thought: I would want to ask our forum member TargeT if he has any familiarity of the SoBig trojan/backdoor system and maybe scratch heads as to the plausibility that someone besides Ibragimov's development team (or Ibragimov himself) would/could have anything to do with current hacking of the East Coast CSX/AMTRAK system.

    ==update==
    SoBig it was explained by various anti-virus software companies, had an "expiration date". So ponder this, that "explanation" was focused upon a "fake" section of the code, a "decoy".. designed to spoof anti-virus companies to ignore a "time bomb".. something which would "wake up" eventually, opening up one of the hidden backdoors.. to allow for access.

    If one managed to get such a payload installed on the computers, why would a spyware developer just let their access easily "expire"? It makes no sense to go to that effort and then just walk away..

    Again, I think there is something very big.. with this CSX infiltration. And where else did So-Big hit?
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    Update from NTSB and Amtrak - CSX was indeed manipulating the switches manually, moving and unloading freight from the CSX train until about 2:45 am. The switch responsible for the routing of the main track onto the siding was left locked in place by a CSX employee, and there were no SIGNALS operating - the Amtrak train then diverted into the siding, crashing into the CSX train. With "running dark" *no signals operating (something crashed the signals), the Amtrak train should have been running about 49 mph according to rules or less (running in "dark territory"). Initial reports that the train was running 80 mph certainly seem incorrect but the transponders are so damaged, they can't be restored to reveal what the speed was. No signalling equipment was working on the main line, so no reporting could have been relayed to dispatch.

    The CSX freight on the siding routed switch SHOULD have been manually switched back to the main track to NOT divert into the siding any main-line traffic. Dispatch had no way to know what that switch position was in with no signals operating.

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