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Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

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Post by pjc50 »

logicchains wrote: post #137
pjc50 wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trump is never all in on anything. There's a reason that "TACO" became a meme. This administration is much more likely to lose interest and declare victory while oil facilities in the gulf states are still on fire. > closing the iranian borders from the outside indefinitely Are you proposing to disrupt China-Iran shipping? Intercept even Chinese-flagged oil vessels? (not that there are many, most are still under flag…

>There's a reason that "TACO" became a meme. This administration is much more likely to lose interest and declare victory while oil facilities in the gulf states are still on fire. Do you think Trump's going to lose interest and declare victory while bombs are still flying over Bibi's head?

https://news24online.com/world/5-times-in-13-seconds-donald-...

I suppose that just claiming victory doesn't mean the US stops fighting

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Post by hananova »

heraldgeezer wrote: post #132
pjc50 wrote: post #119

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On HN, if you have a valid point but get unnecessarily aggressive about it, people will downvote you for attitude. This mostly keeps the forum under control.

I am sorry and I get carried away sometimes but it is frustrating seeing comments from cowboy devs saying to just give everyone admin, have an excel sheet of software and have people manage their own PC and to get rid of IT just because as here they got phished or breached. That works for a 5 person company but not a 1000 person company. Or a 10 person company with 1000 machines.

I used to work in test automation for a huge company with terribly annoying IT. I can tell you for a fact that our entire department had well-developed workarounds for the most annoying policies. We even had a few intune 0-days that we literally kept to ourselves to be able to do our jobs properly.

Because in the end, it’s not IT on the line for their odious policies causing late delivery, it was us.

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Post by red-iron-pine »

cobbzilla wrote: post #6
serf wrote: post #5

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>My only knowledge this company is as a manufacturer of gurneys for ambulances. they have a tremendous catalog[0]. spend time in a hospital, dental office, rehab, etc and you'll see the logo plastered across everything. [0]: https://www.stryker.com/us/en/portfolios/medical-surgical-eq...

yeah that is a lot of tech, but it’s all B2B- no consumer breach, right?

sure no consumer data breach... but this is still going to shutdown or impact lots of medical facilities.

heart rate monitors that go down and no one can get support for, cannot get replacement CAT scan equipment, etc.

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Post by red-iron-pine »

lewispollard wrote: post #78
botanical wrote: post #41

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Sounds like justification for a false flag operation by the US government. How would they transport these massive things and launch them on a different continent? That, or the US is trying to justify that this illegal war is on their doorstep and need to expand their terror.

The drones Iran are using are actually relatively small, you can fit 5 of them into a medium sized truck and they can launch in-situ, which is how they've been using them in ground operations. Doesn't seem that much of a stretch to put a bunch of them into shipping containers.

Ukraine did something similar and wiped out a lot of Russian aircraft.

Buncha drones in shipping containers that popped open once deep in-country

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Post by rchaud »

netsharc wrote: post #103
jacquesm wrote: post #85

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"...

Americans don't need any encouragement from foreign powers to do that. Congress has seen fit to keep letting it happen by pointing to ancient scripture about the right to develop one's own organized militia....

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Post by sgc »

Teever wrote: post #36
sgc wrote: post #28

They 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…

Did you read the article? They said explicitly that is why they did it.

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Post by burnermore »

Erem wrote: post #63
burnermore wrote: post #50

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See, here is what I've observed. I don't expect to change your POVs. Nevertheless... The issue started when Israel was ready to have recognition from Saudi Arabia on their statehood. This would make Hamas irrelevant. And puts Sunnis (Iran) lesser recognised. Meanwhile Shia's (Saudi) will become the defacto in the Muslim world and half of Muslim world would either tolerate or be OK with Israel. Hamas attack on Israel…

> Sunnis (Iran)…Shia (Saudi) These are reversed

My bad. I meant that and typed exactly the opposite. Thanks.

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Post by rchaud »

saberience wrote: post #116
jacquesm wrote: post #85

I'm trying to imagine the kind of response the USA would inflict on a country that wiped a girls school stateside.

What about a company that killed 20000 to 30000 protestors with machine guns?

The US can't even confirm how many detainees have died in custody in immigration detention around the country, yet they have precise numbers on how many people the Iranian regime has killed? Give me a break.

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Post by sgc »

vkou wrote: post #33
sgc wrote: post #28

They 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.

I'm sure that if Iran had the backing of the Western world, and had their surplus of armaments funneled it's way, it would be bombing army bases and refineries and airfields and factories and port facilities in the US. Unlike Ukraine, it does not, so it seems to be focusing on cyber vandalism and blowing up oil infrastructure in US vassal states, and other low-cost, high-ROI activities.

Relatively speaking, I don't care about oil facilities or cyber-vandalism, I care about school children and hospitals and sick people.
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