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At this point, can we safely suspect every important system is compromised at one point or another?
by m3kw9 5y ago
At this point, can we safely suspect every important system is compromised at one point or another?
- sillysaurusx 5y agoI'm not sure there was ever a time when every important system wasn't compromised in some way.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoBy at least one hostile power. Don't assume that it's only one...
- TaylorAlexander 5y agoCertainly seems every Intel CPU has been compromised for decades, right? I’ve not followed it super closely so maybe I’m missing something. We don’t necessarily have exploits “in the wild” but someone in secret partnership with Intel could have gotten access to all kinds of things, it seems.
- xwolfi 5y agoWhy only hostile ? Im French and I sure hope we keep tabs on our american friends to prevent too wide a gap in technology that we'd turn into even more of a vassal satelite.
- AnimalMuppet 5y ago"Keep tabs on our American friends" is a bit different from "break into their electrical grid, water plants, and air traffic control systems". At least, I hope it is...
- 3pt14159 5y agoI can't remember which book I read it in, probably Dark Territory or Cyberspies, but the French were actually able to hack into the computers of the war room for the joint chiefs and POTUS. They were so freaked out that they were able to do it (and worried that other foreign actors like the Chinese could do the same) that they informed the Americans, including how they did it. This was around twenty years ago, if I recall correctly. I think people underestimate European countries. Their less hostile, so people conclude that they lack capability, but they have 0days and cyberwarfare capabilities.
- cwkoss 5y agoMaybe a majority of them, but every one seems highly unlikely