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> It seems that US defense forces are not up to the task of repelling these invaders — yet we're expecting individual companies to go up against them?? They ar
by tw04 5y ago
> It seems that US defense forces are not up to the task of repelling these invaders — yet we're expecting individual companies to go up against them??
They aren't? Has NORAD control been hacked? Any battleships or predator drones?
I admit it's a bad look when, for instance, a VA database is compromised and private information for millions of government employees are exposed, but I'd also be SHOCKED if the NSA were dedicating resources to protecting that data.
Outside of Snowden, what leaks of stuff "the US defense forces" are actually attempting to protect have been captured?
>yet we're expecting individual companies to go up against them?
The companies in question appear to not even be doing basic things like taking backups and making them immutable. I don't think anybody is expecting them to have perfect security, but it doesn't take a lot of effort to backup to a tape and stick it in iron mountain for 2 years, it just takes money.
- eagsalazar2 5y agoThe US military doesn't exist to protect its own assets. That is a secondary concern.
- xpe 5y agoNo. The old adage tells an important lesson: you cannot take care of others if you cannot take care of yourself. Even a cup of water cannot function if it cannot maintain structural integrity.
- roywiggins 5y agoHas NORAD control been hacked? If it was, how would we know? (outside of, uh, kinetic consequences)
- dataangel 5y ago> Any battleships or predator drones? yes actually over ten years ago this happened already https://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/17/drone.video.hacked/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/17/drone.video.hacked/index.h...
- bilbo0s 5y agoI can't find it, but I'm pretty sure Iran has also lifted a drone of ours using a security hack. So if Iran can do it, I'm sure that means others have the same capacity. Maybe security holes are just part and parcel to the whole enterprise. So you have to accept them and center your preparation around your response to such losses. How do you get back up and running? How do you operate without the asset that was compromised? And so on.
- dec0dedab0de 5y agoit was GPS spoofing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident
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