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US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack

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Re: US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack

#41

They're based in Russia with tacit if not explicit government support. We should shut down Russian infrastructure as retaliation.

No we should not. We should hunt down those individuals that are responsible but if we get into this tit for tat escalation pattern it might end poorly for all parties involved.

Re: US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack

#43
post #25

The government is incompetent, especially when it comes to cybersecurity. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Who was it again that has the most effective intelligence community and military in the world?

We should use it and shut down Russian pipelines. The Russian government is supporting and harboring DarkSide. It's possible the state directed this attack through them for plausible deniability.

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#44

I like how they are charging 10% more if you pay with Bitcoin than with Monero. I think commerce would greatly improve if other networks had Tor clients, especially because of the stablecoin and private stablecoin availability as of this year. All EVMs as well as Tendermint networks have no out of the box solutions for Tor nodes and connectivity. But they both have ways for ERC20 tokens to have a great degree of priv…

> I like how they are charging 10% more if you pay with Bitcoin than with Monero.

Source? How much are they asking for?

Re: US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack

#45
post #25

The government is incompetent, especially when it comes to cybersecurity. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Who was it again that has the most effective intelligence community and military in the world?

Why are you bringing Israel into this?

Re: US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack

#46

They're based in Russia with tacit if not explicit government support. We should shut down Russian infrastructure as retaliation.

No we should not. We should hunt down those individuals that are responsible but if we get into this tit for tat escalation pattern it might end poorly for all parties involved.

Yes we should. There is no justification for why we meekly let them have at it cyberspace. It should be pain for pain. Russians will never learn until they feel pain.

Re: US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack

#48
post #44

I like how they are charging 10% more if you pay with Bitcoin than with Monero. I think commerce would greatly improve if other networks had Tor clients, especially because of the stablecoin and private stablecoin availability as of this year. All EVMs as well as Tendermint networks have no out of the box solutions for Tor nodes and connectivity. But they both have ways for ERC20 tokens to have a great degree of priv…

> I like how they are charging 10% more if you pay with Bitcoin than with Monero. Source? How much are they asking for?

There is a screenshot in the article in the Ransomware as a Service (Raas) section.

Re: US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack

#49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are EVMs, ERC2, and sDAI? I do not believe your objective is to confuse or obstruct, but additional context would help understand the unique value of your contribution. This is coming from someone with a recent BSc in Computer Engineering yet still completely unaware of these acronyms & references.

Only a few universities are teaching this stuff right now. In any case: EVM is "Ethereum Virtual Machine", a similar concept to the JVM "Java Virtual Machine". EVMs are one the most common technology for deployment of arbitrary execution within distributed networks. These kinds of functions and applications are colloquially called smart contracts. The biggest distributed network with this technology being simply call…

Thank you for the elaboration. Your humble willingness to do so is much appreciated.

Re: US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack

#50
post #8

Colonial Pipeline precisely does keep it's control network disconnected from the internet - the only thing that was ransomwared is their corporate network. They shut the pipelines down voluntarily to prevent further spread.

Any source for that?
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