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Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught

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Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught

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Post by boomboomsubban »

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…

>I hope we're hacking back just as hard. That's what the NSA should be doing rather than domestic spying

You really care about the ideals of "liberty" and "democracy" I see.

Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught

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Post by _y5hn »

tenpies wrote: post #107
marcusverus wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I would argue that there's a caveat: if the lie is about a person or group that the mainstream media is active hostile against, lying is not just expected, but encouraged and rewarded. Or so, anonymous sources familiar with the matter tell me.

Or in other words, exposing frauds for who they are based on facts, not their talk.

Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught

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Post by dlgeek »

dang wrote: post #116
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.

(We've since changed the URL and the title, which used to be "U.S. has evidence hackers accessed its nuclear networks")

That still is the title, as I see it....

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Post by _y5hn »

ilaksh wrote: post #110
marcusverus wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

That's not my culture. I don't misrepresent things like that. And I don't frown on I curse. But no one cares what I think.

You also have no power. The problem power is a ponzi scheme.

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Post by _y5hn »

pmoriarty wrote: post #111
curiousllama wrote: post #91

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Yea, also, who would build a nuclear bomb that could be detonated via the internet? I would be outright shocked if there wasn’t a mechanical part of the process... eg, in the early days, they literally had the warhead and bomb parts physically separated

"I would be outright shocked if there wasn’t a mechanical part of the process" More shocking things have happened, like the nuclear launch codes being "00000000" for 15 years: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nuclear-missile-code-00000000...

No worries, they upgraded to 11111111.

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Post by maerF0x0 »

bigphishy wrote: post #45
wow_never wrote: post #21

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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.

I'm not sure if looking to China is the most intelligent move for equality in race and gender... e.g. there are many, so many female prostitutes.

I'm sure that is at least in part due to their child policy though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_women_of_China#Wifeles...

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Post by maerF0x0 »

mhh__ wrote: post #65
jtdev wrote: post #15

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Too bad Biden is a China lap dog...

Meanwhile the President salutes Kim Jong-Un

I congratulate anyone who is able to create a dialogue with a country that is otherwise bristling for violence. Better words are flying that bullets or missiles.

Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught

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Post by _y5hn »

IndPhysiker wrote: post #86
mhh__ wrote: post #59

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When you have the President firing people (Director of DHS Cybersecurity ring any bells?) for not playing his insane games, does the apple fall far from the tree? If you think the president needs to actually "understand" anything subtle like (even physical) security, you are being deliberately obtuse or naive.

It is pretty reasonable to say that managers need to have at least a cursory understanding of the business they are managing. That doesn't mean anyone expects a president to take a direct hand in selection of components for a security infrastructure, but rather have an appreciation that information security is quite serious and put competent managers in place over those decisions. Even a Director level position in an…

With fear-based toxic culture, nobody reports anything and you get USSR and Chernobyl the series.
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