Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 18, 2020, 4:45 AM UTC

marcusverus wrote: post #92

gen220 wrote: post #7

Bit of a misleading title by Reuters. They accessed the business networks of the NNSA, the agency responsible for maintaining the nuclear stockpile, but did not access the networks managing the actual nuclear weapons, as the title half-implies. There was no threat of random nuclear weapon exploits, those networks have not been compromised as far as we know.

There is an odd quirk in our culture, where lying is universally acknowledged to be toxic behavior, but the use of intentionally misleading language is merely frowned upon--as long as it doesn't contain a falsifiable claim. But this is really a distinction without a difference, as they achieve the same goal, which is to put an idea in the mind of the listener/reader which the speaker/writer knows to be false. After a…

Post by asdfasgasdgasdg » Fri, Dec 18, 2020, 4:47 AM UTC

marcusverus wrote: post #92

gen220 wrote: post #7

Bit of a misleading title by Reuters. They accessed the business networks of the NNSA, the agency responsible for maintaining the nuclear stockpile, but did not access the networks managing the actual nuclear weapons, as the title half-implies. There was no threat of random nuclear weapon exploits, those networks have not been compromised as far as we know.

There is an odd quirk in our culture, where lying is universally acknowledged to be toxic behavior, but the use of intentionally misleading language is merely frowned upon--as long as it doesn't contain a falsifiable claim. But this is really a distinction without a difference, as they achieve the same goal, which is to put an idea in the mind of the listener/reader which the speaker/writer knows to be false. After a…

Post by nullsense » Fri, Dec 18, 2020, 4:49 AM UTC

sushshshsh wrote: post #83

pengaru wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Reliable, boring old tech to the rescue. Reliable is not a word that comes to mind when recalling floppy disks of my youth.

Reliable no, but difficult to access via a REST API yes

Post by tenpies » Fri, Dec 18, 2020, 4:52 AM UTC

marcusverus wrote: post #92

gen220 wrote: post #7

Bit of a misleading title by Reuters. They accessed the business networks of the NNSA, the agency responsible for maintaining the nuclear stockpile, but did not access the networks managing the actual nuclear weapons, as the title half-implies. There was no threat of random nuclear weapon exploits, those networks have not been compromised as far as we know.

There is an odd quirk in our culture, where lying is universally acknowledged to be toxic behavior, but the use of intentionally misleading language is merely frowned upon--as long as it doesn't contain a falsifiable claim. But this is really a distinction without a difference, as they achieve the same goal, which is to put an idea in the mind of the listener/reader which the speaker/writer knows to be false. After a…

Post by FpUser » Fri, Dec 18, 2020, 4:54 AM UTC

echelon wrote: post #6

It 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…