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>The only country which actively spies on pretty much everyone in the world is the US Why are you sure about that? I think Sunburst burned everyone. There mig
by LogonType10 5y ago
>The only country which actively spies on pretty much everyone in the world is the US
Why are you sure about that? I think Sunburst burned everyone.
There might be a subtle difference here not captured by just labelling all this under the umbrella term "hacking". The American government typically exploits devices for gathering information for authorized espionage, which is something that every country on earth conducts. Russian gangs infect hospitals and water treatment facilities with ransomware. The latter has something we might call "kinetic effects" and is closer to all out cyber war.
- trasz 5y agoWe don’t know what the American government does. We know (some of) what it’s done in the past, and thus we can safely assume it’s up to no good.
- LogonType10 5y agoThis is the genetic fallacy, no? Americans are bad, so they must be hacking hospitals even though we can't see it.
- trasz 5y agoEven ignoring the fact that US doesn't need to hack hospitals, they just declare sanctions to prevent given country from receiving medical supplies... How do we know various attacks come from Russia, and not from US? Mostly because the US says so.