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Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

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

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Post by AshleyGrant »

b112 wrote: post #171
we_have_options wrote: post #162

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Or we could see this as a ramification for US bombing their country and DIRECTLY killing people, including many non-combatants. Like children, at school https://www.npr.org/2026/03/11/nx-s1-5744981/pentagon-iran-m...

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> there is literally no comparison

There absolutely is a comparison. Both acts are evil. Just because Iran's regime has a history of even more heinous evil acts doesn't absolve the United States and Israel of their own evil acts.

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Post by RankingMember »

goatlover wrote: post #227
kelipso wrote: post #190

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Because they have nukes unlike Iran.

And one wonders why Iran wants a nuke. It's not to wipe out Israel and the US as some hawks in Congress falsely claim. It's the same reason North Korea developed nukes. Terrible regimes, but they understand countries with nukes don't get bombed or invaded. That's Ukraine's tragedy.

yeah, if there's one clear takeaway from the US-involved conflicts of the past several decades, it's that nukes are the key to making the U.S. keep its hands to itself

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Post by jmyeet »

gruez wrote: post #214
jmyeet wrote: post #170

Isn't it a weird coincidence that soon after the US and Israel started an unprovoked and unnecessary war (that billionaires will profit handsomely from, as an aside) that we get stories like this to manufacture consent? I belive that US tech firms have increasingly become valid military targets. There was a post about this yesterday [1]. BUT I don't think that extends to hospitals and medical supplies, regardless of…

>Isn't it a weird coincidence that soon after the US and Israel started an unprovoked and unnecessary war (that billionaires will profit handsomely from, as an aside) that we get stories like this to manufacture consent? Are you suggesting that's an inside job and/or false flag attack? If it's not a false flag attack, why imply that the reporting must be to "manufacture consent"? Shouldn't you expect major hacks to b…

No.

I'm saying that the media suddenly covering stories like this isn't a coincidence. The media is a tool of the state to manufacture consent. Media literacy goes beyond just looking at the facts in a story. It's also what's not mentioned, how is it presented, what stories are written, what stories aren't and, most importantly, why.

All social media companies manufacture consent for American foreign policy. Pretty much all American media does the same.

I find all this particularly funny because our media does the exact thing we accuse the likes of Chinese media doing it. We just pretend it doesn't happen here or are oblivious to it.

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Post by RankingMember »

thrance wrote: post #206
b112 wrote: post #175

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Iranian hackers have been at place for quite some time beforehand. And it's not a war started, its a "war" responding to decades of heinous, vicious, deadly funding of terrorist organizations, and bombing of innocent civilians. Defending Iran is akin to defending a serial murderer. Or complaining that the serial murdered got shot while resisting arrest. Ridiculous. I sincerely hope the decent people of Iran do get ri…

The US killed many, many more civilians accross the world that Iran ever did. Yet you don't seem to care about that, why? > And it's not a war started, its a "war" responding to decades of heinous, vicious, deadly funding of terrorist organizations, and bombing of innocent civilians. As if the US hadn't been antagonizing Iran for decades. Trump broke the nuclear agreements (which Iran had been following), then refuse…

> Trump broke the nuclear agreements (which Iran had been following), then refused to negotiate new ones

This is the most head-slapping part of this whole situation. We had a nuclear deal and he pulled the US out of it for no good reason (my read: because he just hates Obama that much that anything he did he wanted to undo). This situation is 100% on this president.

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Post by cityofdelusion »

jmyeet wrote: post #170

Isn't it a weird coincidence that soon after the US and Israel started an unprovoked and unnecessary war (that billionaires will profit handsomely from, as an aside) that we get stories like this to manufacture consent? I belive that US tech firms have increasingly become valid military targets. There was a post about this yesterday [1]. BUT I don't think that extends to hospitals and medical supplies, regardless of…

Is there a reason to believe this is false flag per your first sentence? Iran is an advanced technological civilization and very much capable. They would be considered a first world western like nation if they didn’t have a repressive theocracy.

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

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Post by gruez »

jmyeet wrote: post #234
gruez wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Isn't it a weird coincidence that soon after the US and Israel started an unprovoked and unnecessary war (that billionaires will profit handsomely from, as an aside) that we get stories like this to manufacture consent? Are you suggesting that's an inside job and/or false flag attack? If it's not a false flag attack, why imply that the reporting must be to "manufacture consent"? Shouldn't you expect major hacks to b…

No. I'm saying that the media suddenly covering stories like this isn't a coincidence. The media is a tool of the state to manufacture consent. Media literacy goes beyond just looking at the facts in a story. It's also what's not mentioned, how is it presented, what stories are written, what stories aren't and, most importantly, why . All social media companies manufacture consent for American foreign policy. Pretty…

>I'm saying that the media suddenly covering stories like this isn't a coincidence. The media is a tool of the state to manufacture consent [...]

What do you mean "suddenly"? Per the reddit thread, they just got hacked yesterday. It's not like they were sitting on the story until the war broke out. Moreover I see hacks covered in the media all the time, even if there's no obvious russia/iran/north korea "manufacture consent" angle.

>Media literacy goes beyond just looking at the facts in a story. It's also what's not mentioned, how is it presented, what stories are written, what stories aren't and, most importantly, why.

There's a huge gulf between "taking every story at face value" and what you're doing which is seemingly assuming every story must be part of some sinister conspiracy to "manufacture consent".

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Post by jmyeet »

gruez wrote: post #237
jmyeet wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. I'm saying that the media suddenly covering stories like this isn't a coincidence. The media is a tool of the state to manufacture consent. Media literacy goes beyond just looking at the facts in a story. It's also what's not mentioned, how is it presented, what stories are written, what stories aren't and, most importantly, why . All social media companies manufacture consent for American foreign policy. Pretty…

>I'm saying that the media suddenly covering stories like this isn't a coincidence. The media is a tool of the state to manufacture consent [...] What do you mean "suddenly"? Per the reddit thread, they just got hacked yesterday. It's not like they were sitting on the story until the war broke out. Moreover I see hacks covered in the media all the time, even if there's no obvious russia/iran/north korea "manufacture…

> Per the reddit thread, they just got hacked yesterday.

There are constant hacks of companies. Most of them don't get covered. So there's that. But it's also how it's framed. It's an "Iranian cyberattack". Interesting.

Couldn't an equally valid headline be "Lax security results in Stryker getting hacked"? Probably (just guessing).

It's a bit like all the stories about the Chinese stealing IP and jobs. Ok, let's assume those claims are true and have been for decades. So why do companies keep offshoring there knowing this will happen? At what point do you blame short-term cost-cutting by bonus-hunting executives?

My point is that the media is playing along and you're going to get a lot of "Iran = bad" stories because of it.

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Post by kelvinjps10 »

heraldgeezer wrote: post #225
kelvinjps10 wrote: post #216

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USB keys? Isn't that what most companies do?

No, most companies use MS authenticator now for Office 365... https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/download...

In the company I used to work they shipped you a chromium os computer and a yubikey

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Post by klipt »

rchaud wrote: post #146
netsharc wrote: post #103

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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....

Difficult to be sure what would happen in a counter factual universe without foreign interference.

We do know that Russia et al sow division online as part of their anti western efforts, a strategy detailed in their "Foundations of Geopolitics" manual.

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