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any time someone says something about "the attack came from X", you should think back to this event

• wladimir 15y ago
  This proves again how tremendously paranoid we have become in the west. Everything is an attack, and more generally a reason to distrust each other more. Even if the blame is on ourselves for disregarding maintenance. (not to say that they shouldn't have used a better password, but please, please media stop shouting "cyberwar!!!" at each possible instance)
  • jerf 15y ago
    I'm going to give this the hand-in-the-air rocking-back-and-forth "ehhhhh, welllll" treatment. The media has freaked out about "hackers" more or less continously for the past 30 years. It's not new. Remember, The Hacker Crackdown [1] is from 1992, and the news then was still not that the media freaked out about this sort of thing, but the huge arrest wave it represented. [1]: http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html
    • wladimir 15y ago
      But it did change. "hackers" used to be kids, tricksters and sometimes even criminals. Now, it's "cyberwar", and foreign countries are supposed to be involved even in the most trivial hack. Ooh they used a Chinese proxy so it must be the Chinese!