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> "Screaming Fist" type incident... What's that?

• KineticLensman 7y ago
  From Neuromancer [0], William Gibson's 1984 genre-defining cyberpunk novel > "Operation Screaming Fist," which planned on infiltrating and disrupting Soviet computer systems from ultralight aircraft dropped over Russia. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer
• johnchristopher 7y ago
  It's a reference to Neuromancer, the book. Screaming Fist was the name of an operation that turned out to be a red herring with lethal consequences for those who believed it was a genuine thing. edit: I can't tell if parent refers to the red herring or the objectives of the Screaming Fist operation.
  • Koshkin 7y ago
    Wouldn't have worked on the abacus and the pencil.