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Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

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I'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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Menem, the president at the time, and many more made every effort to cover up who was responsible.

Only in Argentina you get such an attack with no group taking responsibility. Justice system in Argentina is corrupt as hell.

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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.

It's annoying, but it's also grossly irresponsible to let dev machines get compromised. Regardless of which OS they are running.

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'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…

There is little evidence of what you say. On the other hand, there is a country in the region that it's using any excuse that it find to expand itself to great cost to the civil population there.

Anyway, it's kind of funny that the USA have military posts more than 7000 miles away from its borders, but the danger of 'expansionism' is from Iran.

We are in a fantasy propaganda land where Iran is attacked in the middle of negotiations and is Iran the guilty party. How many people have to die in those USA wars? I mean, enough is enough.

Re: Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

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I'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"...

People routinely - well, at least every few months - shoot up US schools. They are radicalized online. There is a common pattern to the radicalization. However, it's ""forbidden"" to point that out or suggest restricting the supply of firearms to internal enemies of the US in any way.

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And some of the perps of the terror attack on Munich Olympic Games escaped retribution completely.

Yes, but Germany isn't the US. We do believe in the "rules-based international order", meaning that there will be a strongly worded letter, some discussion in the UN security council, ending in a veto by China or Russia. Followed by years of nothing at all, a memorial and yearly speeches at some day of rememberance. I'm not sure if this is any better.

West Germany's response to Palestinian terrorism was horrendous. But again, it's all about power. When Arabs have the most important resource in the world, you have little choice and have to submit. Lately Germany improved by much and grew some spine.

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So gain access to a machine that can ask microsoft intune to eviscerate the company, ask it to do so, done. Bit of a shame all the machines had that installed really. Reminds me of crowdstrike.

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