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Cyber Security: A pre-war reality check

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Re: Cyber Security: A pre-war reality check

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Post by fulafel »

mikewarot wrote: post #247
fulafel wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GPS is only one of three currently deployed satellite positioning systems, why aren't planes using the others?

All of them share the same reciever and generally the same frequency bands. Jamming one, jams them all.

Wikipedia has this, is it wrong?

> An anonymous EU official claimed that the US officials implied that they might consider shooting down Galileo satellites in the event of a major conflict in which Galileo was used in attacks against American forces.[34] The EU's stance is that Galileo is a neutral technology, available to all countries and everyone. At first, EU officials did not want to change their original plans for Galileo, but they have since reached the compromise that Galileo is to use different frequencies.

> This allows the blocking or jamming of either GNSS without affecting the other.[35]

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Post by Havoc »

I’m far more concerned about the financial system. Sure infrastructure and IT maybe be shaky and full of holes, but the financial system rests on nothing more than confidence and pixie dust. Confidence failures cascade.

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Post by pabs3 »

FL410 wrote: post #113

This is one of my favorite reads on HN to date. I hope more people see it. It's funny how, even as a "nerd," I often think about if we are doing the wrong thing by taking the nerdy approach to problems that could be solved more simply. It feels like we often choose the most complex or nerdiest approach to prove to ourselves and others that we can and not whether we should - which isn't to say that we shouldn't ever -…

The author has been talking about the downsides of outsourcing for a very long time, their earlier posts are interesting too.

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Post by TeaBrain »

Havoc wrote: post #263

I’m far more concerned about the financial system. Sure infrastructure and IT maybe be shaky and full of holes, but the financial system rests on nothing more than confidence and pixie dust. Confidence failures cascade.

What is your opinion of the financial system based on?

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Post by mike_hearn »

int_19h wrote: post #155
mike_hearn wrote: post #50

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You talked a lot about how bad it is for governments to outsource stuff to Huawei and a handful of US clouds, but didn't really touch on what drive all those decisions beyond claiming it's due to non-technical leadership. It'd be great to see a somewhat deeper analysis than that in future. There are plenty of tech companies that also outsource a lot to the cloud, so it has to be more complicated than that, and there…

It is the most reasonable choice when you get to disregard the long-term risks because by the time they are likely to manifest in a problem, it's no longer your concern anyway. I don't think it's accurate to describe it as "loss of progress", either. It just makes progress more expensive . There's no reason why e.g. those support & maintenance jobs cannot be located in the same country, or at least a friendly one - i…

Nothing magical about them except:

1. They work for far less money.

2. They designed the equipment that's being managed.

Those two reasons are sufficient on their own to make them inherently better at managing 5G networks. The first reason in particular is lost if you relocate the jobs to the west.

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Post by kjkjadksj »

int_19h wrote: post #248
kjkjadksj wrote: post #241

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There is no scenario where the US military cannot move a bomb from point A to B. Everything else would sooner stop than that ability.

Look at the rate at which munitions are expended on the frontlines in Ukraine, for example. Those kinds of amounts need the transportation network to be working in good order. Bring down a single major logistics hub, and bad things happen.

If the US were truly engaged production would scale up like it did in wwii. We can always go back to a centrally planned economy.

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Post by koonsolo »

cpursley wrote: post #220
koonsolo wrote: post #217

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Your comment suggests this was some time ago, since traveling to Ukraine after the invasion doesn't seem to be something most people would do. I have plenty of Ukrainian colleagues, both still in and outside of Ukraine. Opinions differ a lot. There is only this truth: 1. Ukraine is at war 2. Martial Law helps a country at war It's logical that governments take decisions that some people don't like. Martial Law is the…

Call me crazy, but I believe the Ukrainians themselves should get to make the hard decisions involving their lives and future.

True, they are free to decide not to hold elections during martial law. Even the opposition doesn't want it.

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Post by m3047 »

nonrandomstring wrote: post #5
sans_souse wrote: post #2

At times it's a bit difficult to read, as it seems to be a telescript of a speech. But the overall gist and main topic are one that needs much more attention sooner rather than later/never.

My colleagues and I submitted a similar talk/paper for a different NCSC conference (but weren't accepted). I see that this talk by Bert Hubert covers mostly the ground. so I am pleased, but worried about what this take misses out. Hubert is addressing much of the ground that lies between security and resilience. Our emphasis is on how mitigation lies in education and autonomous systems over regulation. Not that regul…

@nonramdonstring: The email address hr@... in your profile is broken. You're welcome to try the one in my profile.

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Post by matheusmoreira »

relaxing wrote: post #246
matheusmoreira wrote: post #151

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That's a great way to get countries to promptly ally with China and Russia instead.

I see why one might think that, if they lacked all knowledge of the history of region and Russia’s involvement.

As if the west is so much better with its "gunboat diplomacy". You know, the "diplomacy" where they bring ships to your coast to let you know they can just shell you with complete impunity if you do not submit to them.
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