Killing 175 children would illicit such a response also from USA hackers.
Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker
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#102I wonder if there was some confusion between Stryker the Army infantry vehicle and Stryker the medtech company.
It seems a really weird target for Iran otherwise.
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#103I'm trying to imagine the kind of response the USA would inflict on a country that wiped a girls school stateside.
If Iran managed to get an American incel to shoot it up, the US regime would just shrug, "oh well, what can you do"...
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An alternative is people install the software they choose to on the machines they're using. Optionally write a list of suggested programs down somewhere. In that world, there is no central IT team pushing changes to machines and arguing with developers about whether they really need to be able to run a debugger. I don't know how to keep windows machines alive. It's probably harder.
I, for one, don't really want employees to install video games, porn cam clients, torrenting apps, shady vpn clients, crypto miners, remote access tools, dns "optimizers" and more generally viruses on their work computers.
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#105Killing 175 children would illicit such a response also from USA hackers.
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#106They are trying to hurt innocents in retaliation for the US murdering their children. I understand the sentiment, but strongly disagree with acting on it. Ukraine has done a much better (of course not perfect) job of retaliating against military targets in response to russian war crimes.
That’s not the motivation for these attacks at all. They’re waging asymmetric warfare against a much larger and more exposed opponent. Their goal is to make it too troublesome for the US/Israel to continue attacking them, like a swarm of bees attacking a bear to keep it away from their honey. Iran is in it to win it and the US is so very obviously not. The question is if the pressure that Israel can put on the curren…
Trump and republicans are now all-in in this war and this administration can tolerate a huge amount of chaos if it allows them to keep winning. It doesn't matter wether Israel pressures the administration or not. I'm not confident that the regime will fall but I am confident that it will be put in its place internationally even if it means closing the iranian borders from the outside indefinitely. BTW the US and Israel are not alone in this war.
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Well, time to dust off anti-drone defense systems. Today on NPR they talked that Iran plans to launch drones from ships into California. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/authorities-warn-of-p... Fox News drone expert: https://nypost.com/2026/03/11/us-news/iran-could-use-drones-...
'Drones from ships into California' is just a psi-op for manufacturing consent. This is not our first rodeo. By now, we should know how things work. It's not in the strategic interest of Iran to do that, and they have been very strategic and rational. It's the Americans who have abandoned rationality. The Iranian goal is very clear: they don't want to sign an agreement and be attacked again in three months or one yea…
> The Iranian goal is very clear: they don't want to sign an agreement and be attacked again in three months or one year.
Yes, of course they want to continue to do what they've been doing and not be attacked for that. Yet it is just not possible. Iran's current regime overall main goal is the spread of Islamic Revolution. Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis - these are typical metastasis of that spread. Terrorist acts, highly visible ones, is one of the effective tools of such a spread, and that way the terrorist acts are rational in the minds of Iran's regime and their above mentioned metastatic followers. There is no security framework possible which would still allow such a spread.
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#108I'm trying to imagine the kind of response the USA would inflict on a country that wiped a girls school stateside.
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Yes thank god the US was able to retaliate against the countries directly involved with 9/11...
Hypothetically, imagine if it ever comes out that one of our greatest allies was involved? I wonder what the reaction will be from Americans? The craziest is thing is that nothing would happen even if it were true
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#109I'm trying to imagine the kind of response the USA would inflict on a country that wiped a girls school stateside.
Extrapolate from the response to 9/11 but with 2026 technology and imagination is the only limit.
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My 95% bet is that the attacker just gained access to an account with suitable privileges and then went on to use existing automation. The fact that it’s intune is largely irrelevant - I’m not aware of any safeguards that any provider would implemen. So the options here are MDM or no MDM and that’s a hard choice. No MDM means that you have to trust all people to get things as basic as FDE or a sane password policy ri…
No MDM just isn’t an option for most enterprises but ideally the keys to the kingdom are properly secured.
How does that look exactly? Someone has to be able to use MDM to manage devices or there’s no point in having it. This scenario is firmly in rubber hose/crescent wrench cryptanalysis territory. Can updates have delays with approval gates built in? Does MDM need a break glass capability?