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Post by gravisultra »

margalabargala wrote: post #328
gravisultra wrote: post #322

Earlier quoted context omitted.

None of that has anything to do with "Israel", which is a creation of Zionism, again from the late 1800s.

Sure. We're both right. You said: "$group has been meddling in the Middle East since $group was created" I said: "groups have been meddling in the Middle East for millenia." You disagreed, apparently because you're choosing to define "the current situation" as "Zionists meddling in the Middle East" so I suppose you're tautologically correct that the "current situation" has been around as long as they have.

Humanity has had wars since homo sapiens evolved (and prior) that doesn't remove all context and morality (viewed through any lens).

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Post by gravisultra »

UltraSane wrote: post #329
gravisultra wrote: post #327

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A first party source, means directly from the originating party. In this case, there is no statement from Iranian officials that exists. Just 2nd hand quotes. Other first party sources would be photographic evidence, videos... like what we have of Zionist crimes in Gaza, the West Bank, Iran, Lebanon... Iran is inhabited by indigenous people. Israel is ruled by colonizers. That is the difference. Another huge differen…

As a US citizen you should be aware that the US was stolen from the Native Americans the exact same way you believe that Israel was stolen from the native population. Iran was violently colonized by Arabs. The history of most countries contain many wars over land yet only Israel gets focused on. So strange. And the only reason Iran is Shia is because it was converted by force https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safavid_con…

Yes, and just like the Natives had the Pueblo Revolt uprising, the Palestinians also resist. If it was 1570, I would absolutely support Indigenous people resisting their land being stolen and their own genocide.

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Post by margalabargala »

gravisultra wrote: post #331
margalabargala wrote: post #328

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure. We're both right. You said: "$group has been meddling in the Middle East since $group was created" I said: "groups have been meddling in the Middle East for millenia." You disagreed, apparently because you're choosing to define "the current situation" as "Zionists meddling in the Middle East" so I suppose you're tautologically correct that the "current situation" has been around as long as they have.

Humanity has had wars since homo sapiens evolved (and prior) that doesn't remove all context and morality (viewed through any lens).

You're saying the same thing.

Saying "the situation with the Zionists has existed as long as Zionism has existed" is the same as saying "the situation with Homo sapiens has existed as long as Homo sapiens has".

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

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Post by cyberpunk »

ImPostingOnHN wrote: post #279
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…

Boots on the ground? Nukes? Internment camps? It can go much further.

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Post by rcxdude »

heraldgeezer wrote: post #330
rcxdude wrote: post #317

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Everyone doing it doesn't make it a good idea. The big tech companies and governments are I think a little more paranoid about rouge admins, so they do at least try to limit the blast radius of any given credential, but almost no-one else has that level of maturity, which creates this pretty big chasm in the resiliance of IT organisations as you go from small to large. (There's also a certain irony about IT complaini…

I think you do not understand what a massive undertaking even securing a tenant in GSuite or Office 365 can be. Plus networking. Plus end user computing. On top of this you want companies and governments to make their own tools? You have a vision... of something zero trust. Now make it and implement it. Oh, not so easy? S3 buckets used to be open by default. Office 365 had MFA as optional for a looooong time. So thin…

Doesn't need to be their own tools. It's organizational and cultural, not a case of no-one makes the tools to enable it.

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Post by UltraSane »

gravisultra wrote: post #332
UltraSane wrote: post #329

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a US citizen you should be aware that the US was stolen from the Native Americans the exact same way you believe that Israel was stolen from the native population. Iran was violently colonized by Arabs. The history of most countries contain many wars over land yet only Israel gets focused on. So strange. And the only reason Iran is Shia is because it was converted by force https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safavid_con…

Yes, and just like the Natives had the Pueblo Revolt uprising, the Palestinians also resist. If it was 1570, I would absolutely support Indigenous people resisting their land being stolen and their own genocide.

What difference does the year make? Why do you think that the Palestinians have the right to violently fight for their land but not native Americans? It is a huge double standard. The harsh truth is that the Palestinians can't get their land back by force and all their efforts at doing so have made their lives much much worse.

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Post by iwontberude »

LtWorf wrote: post #293
iwontberude wrote: post #290

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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.

It depends on your military doctrine, if facing a first strike adversary you wouldn’t necessarily want them to believe you capable.

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Post by mapotofu »

Banditoz wrote: post #13

Does InTune have some sort of check that goes "if over 1% of devices are wiped within a certain timeframe, stop all new device wipe requests"? Seems like it should be a feature, especially if these kinda attacks pick up.

You can set dual authorization for resets, wipes, and deletes. Normally CISA would pipe in with this kind of guidance. Anyone know what they’re up to now?

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

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Post by mapotofu »

renewiltord wrote: post #52
jonstewart wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We had a government agency working on stopping threat actors, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, but then DOGE ruined it. Now it’s a shell.

So the role they were fulfilling is gone entirely? What was it?

The providing guidance and standards across disparate critical infrastructure settings and also provided training, hands on keyboard support, and a lot of other services. Most of that has been significantly reduced.

CISA was NOT another agency doing nothing.

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

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Post by ImPostingOnHN »

cyberpunk wrote: post #334
ImPostingOnHN wrote: post #279

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? 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…

Boots on the ground? Nukes? Internment camps? It can go much further.

Yeah, but the current administration making their own people's lives worse by starting a war and inviting attacks such as this one, wouldn't manufacture any consent for those things.

If anything, it would manufacture opposition. The US general public blames the administration for any negative consequences resulting from the administration's war of choice: Attacks, high energy prices, further loss of US credibility, etc.

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