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> Here's what I don't understand, why doesn't the US simply cut their connections to the world. It's quite easy to find fiber optic locations...cut them. Iran cut it itself. Its running its own domestic internet where everything domestic works. All domestic banks, apps. Literal arrogance to think that the US owns the world.
Not sure how that determines "Literal arrogance...". My assumption, perhaps naive, is that Iran had connections to the outside world from which the hacking was taking place. Are the Iranian hackers not within Iran?
You can buy access to compromised computers anywhere in the world. This would require cutting off any path to anywhere in the world, since the person performing the attacks can also be anywhere in the world.
The US isolating itself from the rest of the world isn't financially feasible.