Earlier quoted context omitted.
This would be a pretty wild explanation for the run on BTC recently
what would be driving BTC up ?
[deleted]
Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
161–170 of 222 posts
Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 unthinkab…
Assuming your counter-attack doesn't make the difference between complex civilisation surviving and being wiped out on Earth, it has the potential benefit of preventing the initiating party from repeating their attack against other nations.
Even if the initial launch was a genuine mistake, there is some value in launching a retaliation because it prevents such mistakes (or "deliberate mistakes") from happening in the future. In fact, seeing how much the mistake costs the initiating party may be sufficient motivation for all the remaining countries to properly commit towards disarmament.
Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
My personal favorites:
1. Stepping into WW2 to defeat the nazis and axis powers.
2. Govt is largest overseas aid provider to poorer nations, also on avg, the avg american (normal people not millionares or corporations) give more money and donations to charites around the world than any other industrialized country in the world.
3. The American Revolution helped usher humanity into the Enlightment Period, combined with the writing of the Constitution. Hard to overestimate these contribution to humanity.
Some random list i found on the internet if that helps:
https://americaintheworld.typepad.com/briefings/what_america...
The US has made many mistakes as the world's superpower. Someomes gotta be in charge though. The natural state of things is not peace and hugs and kisses. They have been fighting over resources since the dawn of humanity, and someone needs to have the biggest military to tell people to stop fighting with eachother.
Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#164What is it going to take for the US to do something about the threat from Russia?
Nothing hopefully. Russia is a nuclear armed power and dicking around in cyberspace doesn't kill anyone. The US gave billions to get Yeltsin elected which far surpasses by orders of magnitude anything the US has alleged so far.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/26/russian-el...
Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Lol, didn't invent slavery, "hey we're not the bad guys there!". That sentence is true enough, but it seems large swathes of your population are still proudly defending their ancestors who fought a civil war in order to maintain their ability to enslave people who didn't look like them.
We had a black president 4 years ago, we have a black VP coming in now,
Some southeners are rascist, get over it
Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#166I am pointing the finger at Microsoft for allowing bad security practice in windows kernel, architecture and other aspects of the Windows operating system. I am have to hand it to Microsoft for the good job security. However without knowing the extent of the incident, and going off of this part: "At this point, the investigation has found that the malware has been isolated to business networks only..." It is more tha…
If you were a government agency responsible for a deterrent that has held the peace since WW2 and that deterrent had just been compromised would you tell the public?
Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#167Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#168Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#169I am pointing the finger at Microsoft for allowing bad security practice in windows kernel, architecture and other aspects of the Windows operating system. I am have to hand it to Microsoft for the good job security. However without knowing the extent of the incident, and going off of this part: "At this point, the investigation has found that the malware has been isolated to business networks only..." It is more tha…
Microsoft moved the GDI into the (formerly) NT microkernel back in the switch from NT 3.51 to NT 4.0, for performance reasons -- and it was needed back then.
If the Linux kernel is getting too heavy for you (there really is a lot going on in there now), you can always switch to FreeBSD or OpenBSD. (no snark intended, this is actually quite a viable option for many workloads.)
Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#170How come this community of self-proclaimed hackers and independent thinkers are so quick to believe whatever "cyber-attack" related news that gets published?
Because conspiracies have a nasty habit of being true.