Advanced Off-the-Shelf Targeted Attacks Against Nation States [video]

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 4:21 AM UTC

sighsigh wrote: post #7

ddod wrote: post #4

I am really confused as to why the security community is obsessed with the term "nation state". Every single publication or quote from security researchers that wants to attribute some worm or attack to a country incorrectly calls it a nation state. A nation state is a specific thing that is not just a pompous way of saying state or country. If you're wondering, you can check the Wikipedia entry on it. There's nothin…

What's even more problematic is that you have been downvoted on a community that was founded by people who participated in building the tech responsible for forging history's first self-sustaining post-nationalist identity (the internet) in history. The nation-state must be the enemy, which can only be defeated by a nation-state... because the concept of a nation-state is dying and is engaging in full blown Hegelian…

Post by sighsigh » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 9:37 AM UTC

gizmo686 wrote: post #12

sighsigh wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's even more problematic is that you have been downvoted on a community that was founded by people who participated in building the tech responsible for forging history's first self-sustaining post-nationalist identity (the internet) in history. The nation-state must be the enemy, which can only be defeated by a nation-state... because the concept of a nation-state is dying and is engaging in full blown Hegelian…

>history's first self-sustaining post-nationalist identity I am not a historian, but wouldn't that honor go to religion? Regardless, religion is certainly older than the Internet.