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> For multi-national corporations, will other nations be okay with it? imagine hacking back and accidentally hitting a hospital killing someone in the process

> For multi-national corporations, will other nations be okay with it? imagine hacking back and accidentally hitting a hospital killing someone in the process that is a fast line to get an Interpol terrorist arrest request on your head, sure the US won't hand you over, but have fun to never leave the US and get assets abroad sized

Aeolun 7mo ago
Does that happen to state sponsored Iranian hackers?
- dathinab 7mo ago
  the comments are about "private firms hacking back" not about highly specialized groups hacking first but also "professional hackers" have screwed over hospitals before and confirmed it was accidental, so potentially yes worse Iranian terrorist with hacking skills might intentional target hospitals and they might not sit in Iran so disconnecting Iran is unlikely to help at all with such a threat
MagicMoonlight 7mo ago
At first I thought this was a joke comment, like you could accidentally fire a hacking missile and hit a hospital… but you’re serious?
- fakedang 7mo ago
  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3ly4v2kp2o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3ly4v2kp2o
- everforward 7mo ago
  Hacks that need to cross an air gap are often self-replicating. Ie you get an email with a compromised PDF, and your phone starts distributing it to everything else on the same network so if you connect your phone to the air gapped network it can get in. Then you end up with collateral damage if your wife or roommate or whatever works at a hospital and they take their infected device to work.
everforward 7mo ago
I wouldn’t bet my freedom on the current US admin sticking their neck out to save me. Domestically, they’re hemorrhaging polling numbers and can’t eat the PR hit of “innocent people in a random country died because of what we said”. Abroad, we are in a much weaker position than we were a couple years ago both in terms of alliances and economics. We feel very vulnerable to foreign tariffs with the economy as it is.

Aeolun 7mo ago

Does that happen to state sponsored Iranian hackers?

dathinab 7mo ago
the comments are about "private firms hacking back" not about highly specialized groups hacking first but also "professional hackers" have screwed over hospitals before and confirmed it was accidental, so potentially yes worse Iranian terrorist with hacking skills might intentional target hospitals and they might not sit in Iran so disconnecting Iran is unlikely to help at all with such a threat

MagicMoonlight 7mo ago

At first I thought this was a joke comment, like you could accidentally fire a hacking missile and hit a hospital… but you’re serious?

fakedang 7mo ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3ly4v2kp2o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3ly4v2kp2o
everforward 7mo ago
Hacks that need to cross an air gap are often self-replicating. Ie you get an email with a compromised PDF, and your phone starts distributing it to everything else on the same network so if you connect your phone to the air gapped network it can get in. Then you end up with collateral damage if your wife or roommate or whatever works at a hospital and they take their infected device to work.

everforward 7mo ago

I wouldn’t bet my freedom on the current US admin sticking their neck out to save me. Domestically, they’re hemorrhaging polling numbers and can’t eat the PR hit of “innocent people in a random country died because of what we said”. Abroad, we are in a much weaker position than we were a couple years ago both in terms of alliances and economics. We feel very vulnerable to foreign tariffs with the economy as it is.