I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
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I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
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Re: I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
#2Gilfoyle was here. Everything that has been mocked in the Silicon Valley Show has either already happened or will happen.
Re: I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
#3Single source systems provider and integrator and a doom date?
Could be a hack or a design flaw. I await the root cause analysis.
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#4There's a far simpler explanation than some outside actor (either state sponsored or otherwise) deciding that the best thing they can do is to muck around with freezers.
We know there's been a severe rot of operational capabilities in the military thanks for Hegseths purges and general stupidity. It's entirely possible and quite likely that over the course of his various drunken binges he decided to get rid of people who were in charge of operational control for stuff like freezers across military bases.
Re: I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
#5Welcome to the internet of shitty unsupported and insecure crap!
Are we really this dumb as a society?
Re: I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
#6There's a far simpler explanation than some outside actor (either state sponsored or otherwise) deciding that the best thing they can do is to muck around with freezers. We know there's been a severe rot of operational capabilities in the military thanks for Hegseths purges and general stupidity. It's entirely possible and quite likely that over the course of his various drunken binges he decided to get rid of people…
General Stupidity should probably be demoted for this.
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#7Very interesting article, very neurotically written. Definitely got grating by the end.
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#8The author doesn't really claim it was a hack, just that it is a possibility. But they are charging down the path of the potential hack before asking the more obvious question: How many refrigerators exist in the military at all? And of those, how many are having problems?
Because a half dozen a day sounds plausible as standard maintenance issues, as the author acknowledges. If it were a hack, I'd expect something like 50% of them to have problems. But not knowing how many there are, I don't know how significant these incidents really are.
Re: I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
#9Welcome to the internet of shitty unsupported and insecure crap! Are we really this dumb as a society?
Yes
Re: I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
#10There's a far simpler explanation than some outside actor (either state sponsored or otherwise) deciding that the best thing they can do is to muck around with freezers. We know there's been a severe rot of operational capabilities in the military thanks for Hegseths purges and general stupidity. It's entirely possible and quite likely that over the course of his various drunken binges he decided to get rid of people…
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