Clickbait nonsense.
Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
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Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why should the US claim moral authority? It’s the least moral country on Earth - stolen, racist, solely designed to funnel wealth to white men. China deserves it more than us.
US has been on the right side of many things in history, not all of course, For example, beating the nazis, USA did not invent slavery or the international slave trade, leading the world in charitable donations, etc. Take a chill pill
> many things
orly? name 3.
Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#73It feels like we're in the calm before the storm and nobody is watching the approaching squall. China growing in power and influence, flexing itself on the global stage. The US waning internationally, citizens divided and full of hate. We're factory-less, fab-less, and have fewer educated. Fewer consumers. Lots of debt. We have SpaceX, but China's pace of exploration and international cooperation is increasing faster…
I think China has been playing us for years, and doing so masterfully. There's no _good_ reason for the US, with our economy and standing, to be ripping itself apart from within -- but, indeed we are.
Not only is China growing in power and influence, as you point out, it has been investing in American media and other industries. They're famous for playing their strategic game over a long span of time (the long game).
My pet theory is that Hollywood, Silicon Valley and the Left are thoroughly (and probably unwittingly) influenced by the infiltration, and are the medium for memes and messaging that divides us so much. It's as though we're about to re-fight the Civil War. China, the master that it is at cultural revolution and re-education, is playing a shrewd game.
I think they're about to beat us cold by causing us to implode from within. If so, it's beyond sad -- but in terms of military strategy, a brilliantly played hand by President Xi and the CCP.
Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#74Responding to this might be Bidens first major international crisis. Would not want that job.
Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#75The good news is that US nuclear weapon silos are stuck with 1970s technology. https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/huge-floppy-disks-and-o...
Reliable, boring old tech to the rescue.
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#76We’re all still here, so it could’ve gone slightly worse. Maybe not much, though.
I wonder if we have dead man switches.. In a MAD world you would want to launch without human intervention from isolated systems.... I wonder how that would work... maybe it's not possible.
I have always wondered, if I were at the helm of a government asserting MAD capabilities, I would probably just not hold up my end of the bargain. Threatening MAD makes total sense, but once your enemy has assured your own destruction, is there much sense in actually following through? All you are doing is assuring millions of innocent people die for the actions of some generals.
All this to say, that it is unthinkably inhuman to have MAD be an automated response.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love that it's impossible to tell if you're mildly upset at the current state of this post or asking a mod to change it.
That's the beauty of it: many invocations of "dang" in HN will be done for both reasons. I don't know the origin of that username, but it's grown into it's role.
I think he even has a trigger on that which sometimes leads to funny situations.
Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#78What is it going to take for the US to do something about the threat from Russia?
From the actual article:
>The U.S. government has not blamed any particular actor for the hacks yet, but cybersecurity experts have said the activity bears the hallmarks of Russia’s intelligence services.
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#79Why is all of this important stuff just hanging off the internet like it's a public webserver in a data center?
So that they can get software updates.
Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#80The good news is that US nuclear weapon silos are stuck with 1970s technology. https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/huge-floppy-disks-and-o...
Reliable, boring old tech to the rescue.
> Reliable, boring old tech to the rescue.
Reliable is not a word that comes to mind when recalling floppy disks of my youth.