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

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Post by haritha-j »

sofixa wrote: post #54
vkou wrote: post #44

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Nuclear weapons are a MAD red line that will result in total annihilation of the attacker. They are only useful in a defensive capacity. This kind of aggression, however, does seem to make their value as a deterrent clear. Observe how nobody is fucking with North Korea like they did with Iraq or Venezuela.

> Nuclear weapons are a MAD red line that will result in total annihilation of the attacker. They are only useful in a defensive capacity. Also in a "if I'm going down, everyone else is going down with me", which is Ian's strategy in this war (for good reasons). If the IRGC had nukes, and was severely threatened (like, killing the Supreme Leader and threatening to kill all of the replacements until they bend to the U…

Yes, but the whole point of having nukes as a deterrent is that the US wouldn't have arbitrarily killed their leader in the first place. "If i'm going down, everyone else is going down" is the feature, not a bug.

To be clear I don't like the idea of MAD one bit. But this is indeed how it's meant to work.

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Post by Ekaros »

JonChesterfield wrote: post #83
heraldgeezer wrote: post #71

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Well, all the machines in the current outfit are Linux as far as I know. Services are self hosted. Seems to be fine, teams et al run adequately in a browser for talking to people on other stacks. Previous place had a corporate controlled windows laptop that made a very poor thin client for accessing dev machines. One before that had a somewhat centrally managed macbook that made a very poor thin client for accessing…

I don't see how Linux would prevent anything if company wants similar controls on their machines. Like tracking update status, forcing updates when needed, potentially wiping entire device when stolen and so on. Fault really is not the OS but the control corporate wants over their devices. And it does make some sense.

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Post by jiggawatts »

heraldgeezer wrote: post #73
spwa4 wrote: post #72

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That ANY kind of config change should be rate-limited has been pretty obvious and hammered on in SRE manuals for at least 10 years.

And who sets the limits? MS? What if a company WANTS to wipe their entire fleet?

"Call support so they can turn off the safeties for an hour."

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Post by dmos62 »

koshergweilo wrote: post #68
4gotunameagain wrote: post #42

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I have no idea why you would assume Israel had to resort to extortion to get Trump to help them bomb Iran. We bombed Venezuela a few weeks ago, no extortion required. It's far more likely he was did it because Hegseth thought it would be more manly or something more ego driven than extortion. More likely it's just another example of flooding the zone to forget about the Epstein files and the stagnating economy

> flooding the zone

I've often struggled to find a concise way to say "control public narrative by crowding out other headlines". Thank you for sharing the popular term for this [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone

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Post by inglor_cz »

myth_drannon wrote: post #93
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.

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And some of the perps of the terror attack on Munich Olympic Games escaped retribution completely.

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Post by koshergweilo »

potatototoo99 wrote: post #88
koshergweilo wrote: post #68

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I have no idea why you would assume Israel had to resort to extortion to get Trump to help them bomb Iran. We bombed Venezuela a few weeks ago, no extortion required. It's far more likely he was did it because Hegseth thought it would be more manly or something more ego driven than extortion. More likely it's just another example of flooding the zone to forget about the Epstein files and the stagnating economy

Venezuela is in the eastern hemisphere, just like Cuba, and it seems they want to control that entire part of the world. Iran would be of no concern to the US if not for Israel.

> Iran would be of no concern to the US if not for Israel.

This is only true if you completely ignore the Sunni Shia split and our relationship with literally every other country in the Middle East excluding Israel.

Edit: This is evidenced by the fact that when Iran was attacked by The US and Israel, they bombed a bunch of neighboring countries with US bases. None of those countries have alliances with Israel. (Although they are certainly less hostile than other countries in the region)

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Post by koshergweilo »

dmos62 wrote: post #95
koshergweilo wrote: post #68

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I have no idea why you would assume Israel had to resort to extortion to get Trump to help them bomb Iran. We bombed Venezuela a few weeks ago, no extortion required. It's far more likely he was did it because Hegseth thought it would be more manly or something more ego driven than extortion. More likely it's just another example of flooding the zone to forget about the Epstein files and the stagnating economy

> flooding the zone I've often struggled to find a concise way to say "control public narrative by crowding out other headlines". Thank you for sharing the popular term for this [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone

No problem! It's one of things that when you see it, you start to see it everywhere. The concept also has broad explanatory power: it explains seemingly irrational actions from otherwise shrewd actors such as Elon Musk spending so much on Twitter and a lot of Trump's smaller controversies

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Post by koshergweilo »

autoexec wrote: post #87
names_are_hard wrote: post #79

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Or he's just a manchild who likes doing things that he thinks will make him look strong.

Picking on someone vastly weaker than you (especially while they're already getting beat up by somebody else) doesn't make you look strong, it mostly just makes you look like an asshole, and probably an asshole who is too scared or too weak to go after somebody who can actually fight back.

> it mostly just makes you look like an asshole

This is true, but only for a certain percentage of the US population. Large swaths of this country think that picking on our weaker neighbors evidence of our strength

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Post by thyristan »

inglor_cz wrote: post #96
myth_drannon wrote: post #93

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And some of the perps of the terror attack on Munich Olympic Games escaped retribution completely.

Yes, but Germany isn't the US. We do believe in the "rules-based international order", meaning that there will be a strongly worded letter, some discussion in the UN security council, ending in a veto by China or Russia. Followed by years of nothing at all, a memorial and yearly speeches at some day of rememberance.

I'm not sure if this is any better.

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