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Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

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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…

Mowing the lawn and stealing land in the west bank is what you call peace? Israel even killed Irans negotiators last year when they were getting close to a deal. This situation is engineered, Netanyahu has wanted this for decades.

Thanks for pointing this out. TIL!

But this is after Oct 7 attack?

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I agree with the first part of what you said. Mostly because they didn't have nukes to begin with.

I think it’s possible they already have nukes and want to wait for Israel to over extend themselves so that they can use them for a first strike with maximum efficacy. They’ve done a lot for Russia. The idea that they don’t have nuclear armament is somewhat hard for me to believe.

The whole point of having nukes is letting everyone know you have them.

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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.

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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.

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

I find those numbers hard to believe, as it is obvious that the US was already planning a regime changing intervention for quite some time when those protests happened.

You can't trust people who paint Reza Pahlavi as a paragon of human rights and democracy. And neither you can trust every iranian refugee as a lot of those were corrupt members of the ruling government or worse, Savak members.

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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…

>There is little evidence of what you say. ... but the danger of 'expansionism' is from Iran. if you aren't familiar with Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis - i highly recommend reading on it, even if just in Wikipedia. >How many people have to die in those USA wars? I mean, enough is enough. I think most important isn'h how many, the most important is who. Iran's regime has just indiscriminately killed 20-30K innocent civili…

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> Iran's regime has just indiscriminately killed 20-30K innocent civilians and uncountable many have been tortured. That is a crime against humanity. So, the top of Iran's regime and its IRGC has to be punished. I'm fine with that punishment being US and Israel's missiles. Israel's regime has killed twice that many in Gaza. Shouldn't they be prioritized for "punishment"?

As i said the key thing isn't how many, it is who, how and what for. Israel started the war in response to the genocide of Oct 7. So all the legitimate collateral victims and damage from Israel's actions here is responsibility of the perpetrators of Oct 7. You aren't calling for prosecution of the perpetrators of Oct 7. That is already shows your colors. Anyway, the number of killed you cite comes directly from Hamas…

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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.

Which is why I allow Slack but not Teams or Exchange-based mail on my phone. Give me a company phone if you want me to use Teams.

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

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Judging by the target of the attack, looks like a false flag (it can be a false flag also if done by members of the organization paid by you know who, there were precedents).

Iran specifically takes care to underline that it is not "an enemy of the american people".

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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…

MDM enrollment has colloquially meant your device could be wiped for the security|incompetency of your firm for quite some time.

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