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Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

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Post by kelvinjps10 »

heraldgeezer wrote: post #249
kelvinjps10 wrote: post #239

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Most companies are definitely NOT using Yubikeys. Did you work for Google? Nice man :) MFA in general had to be forced on companies, and then it is most often in software on a phone. Here are some rough numbers. google_workspace: total_active_users: "3 billion (includes free/consumer Gmail)" paid_business_customers: "11 million companies (2024)" paid_customer_growth: "+1 million companies in under 1 year (2023-2024)"…

I worked for Amazon they used the open source version of chrome os (chromium os). And mini PCs, I think this is the best setup, If I ever have to manage a company I will do this.

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Post by w14 »

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…

> I belive that US tech firms have increasingly become valid military targets.

Not just US tech firms. So-called dual-use has been embedded into all kinds of what was previously exclusively civilian infrastructure including telecoms networks and data centres.

Of course dual-use has always been a thing up to a point, but there has been a shift in recent years to bring it right to the heart of military doctrine.

For example the UK's Strategic Defence Review 2025 and the new Defence Industrial Strategy:

"A new £11bn ‘Invest’ annual budget has also been established under the NAD. This will fund kit for our front-line forces which is affordable and grows our UK industrial base. Our new partnership with industry and a decade of consistently rising defence spending will encourage more private finance to grow our world-leading scale-up and dual-use tech companies."

"Today, much of the best innovation is found in the private sector, while the increasing prevalence of dual-use technologies has widened the net of potential suppliers that can contribute to Defence outcomes."

The way things are going it won't just be tech firms that will be considered 'legitimate targets'.

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Post by gravisultra »

elbasti wrote: post #254
globemaster99 wrote: post #118

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If by "survival" you mean surviving against a bloodthirsty regime that killed 10,000 people in January alone, then yes: the people of Iran are fighting for survival.

That's pure Israeli propaganda, and as you see there is absolutely no "up rising" from Iranian citizens. They are however, uniformly against Israel and the US given that we started this illegal war by bombing a girls school and murdering over 170 children. Much like Israel has been doing since its creation in 1948.

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Post by gravisultra »

srean wrote: post #121

Patriot of Persia https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12202123-patriot-of-pers... An important book to read. So many people think this started with the islamic revolution of the 70s. The meddling goes further in time.

Zionists have been meddling in the Middle East since their ideology was created in the late 1800s.

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Post by gravisultra »

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?

Which Iran did not do. There's a single report from an anti-Iran agency saying that Iran claimed 3,000 killed protesters (not 20k-30k). Iran never said that though, and I would challenge anyone to produce evidence that they did.

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Post by [deleted] »

mjlee wrote: post #217
strict9 wrote: post #155

It appears personal devices were also impacted by this via Microsoft Intune. That app is presented to employees as a way to get their email/slack on their personal device without giving IT systems access to it. IT systems around the country say that they have no access to your personal data and there they can only block access to Intune apps. But the linked reddit thread[1] in this article notes personal devices gett…

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) MDM profiles typically don't allow personal data access outside of their sandbox, but they almost always include remote wipe capabilities. iOS at least displays a very clear warning when you import the profile telling you exactly what it can do. Not that this isn't awful, but it's good to be clear on what this can do when used within normal expectations.

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Post by nubinetwork »

JonChesterfield wrote: post #90
heraldgeezer wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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.

Not feasible when you have a fleet of 5000 devices and 15000 users, most of whom both roam locally and remotely.

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Post by RobertoG »

trhway wrote: post #258
RobertoG wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why was Hezbollah created? From wikipedia: "Hezbollah was founded in 1982 by Lebanese clerics in response to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon" Why was Hamas created? From wikipedia: "was founded by Palestinian Islamic scholar Ahmed Yassin in 1987 after the outbreak of the First Intifada against the Israeli occupation" What about the Houthis? From wikipedia: "The formation of the Houthi organisations has been described…

>There is not evidence about that 20-30k civilians dead. I could say it was 3 and I would have the same proof that you have. As i said you don't know what you're talking about. You seem to be just blabbering some gibberish. I'm not engaging with you anymore here. https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-protest-death-toll-ofogh-tv/336... "The government of Iran's reformist President Masud Pezeshkian has published the names and n…

Exactly, Iran published the number of death and what we heard all the time is that number multiplied by ten. But I'm the one blabbering gibberish.

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Post by ImPostingOnHN »

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?

Manufacture consent for what? Starting a war with Iran? The US already did that, and didn't need any sort of consent.

If anything, this sort of story is more likely to manufacture opposition to the war, because folks already think the war is stupid, pointless, and never should have happened, and now they're suffering more for it.

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Post by s_dev »

elbasti wrote: post #254
globemaster99 wrote: post #118

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If by "survival" you mean surviving against a bloodthirsty regime that killed 10,000 people in January alone, then yes: the people of Iran are fighting for survival.

"Tu quoque" comments don't help any discussion. Both the US and Iran are wrong. Iran is wrong for the massacre and the US is wrong for starting a war with Israel against Iran. They are wrong for different reasons. Iran is run by a despotic regime and the US has lost the plot. Possibly Trump is trying to deflect from the Epstein files and create a rally around the flag effect as the midterms approach and doesn't have better ideas to get the public on side. Israel is in the wrong here too.
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