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> On the global stage, state-sponsored attacks from actors like China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have threatened to compromise the infrastructure that under
by rakel_rakel 6mo ago
> On the global stage, state-sponsored attacks from actors like China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have threatened to compromise the infrastructure that underpins both civilian life and military readiness.
AITA for thinking that PRISM was probably the state sponsored program affecting civilian life the most? And that one state is missing from the list here?
- wetpaws 6mo ago[dead]
- ronsor 6mo ago> Large American AI company does not list the US as an adversarial actor This is not a surprise or a gotcha.
- jaidhyani 6mo agoSaid company is literally in court against said government at the moment, after said government attempted to designate it too dangerous to do business with.
- da_chicken 6mo agoThere are currently over 1,000 companies involved in lawsuits against the US government right now even if we restrict ourselves to just tariff lawsuits.
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- xvector 6mo agoAnd the government is attempting "corporate murder" on precisely one of them. Wanna guess which one?
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- u8080 6mo agoAFAIK Apple also "denied FBI to decrypt iPhone" while participating in PRISM
- lobochrome 6mo agoHow did PRISM affect civilian life?
- itishappy 6mo agoHonest question: how do state-sponsored attacks from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia affect civilian life?
- simonsarris 6mo agoPresumably, those have influenced elections, though I guess it depends what you count as an attack. Plenty of bots try to modify public opinion. Someone hacked the DNC in 2015/16, the result of which also alleged attempted manipulation in 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee_cyber_attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee_... Since we (as old Rummy said) do not know what we do not know, we cannot be certain about the extent of cyber attacks and what they might have influenced, and may not know these things until discoveries decades later, if ever.
- realo 6mo agoYes... they might have influenced elections and now, as a result, the world must cope with the Trump regime. Let's now fool ourselves.... Trump is probably the best, most successful attempt at world de-stabilisation all those rogue states ever achieved.
- Ar-Curunir 6mo agoMaybe Americans should take responsibility for electing a maniac as their President. In the end, the buck stops with Americans.
- Forgeties79 6mo ago~1/3rd of US citizens voted for him. Don’t lump us all in.
- parthdesai 6mo agoThe irony of that statement given the current circumstances
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago> PRISM was probably the state sponsored program affecting civilian life the most? No state-sponsored hacking affected Americans materially. I just don't think we were networked enough in the 2010s. The risk is higher now since we're in a more warmongering world. (Kompromat on a power-plant technician is a risk in peace. It means blackouts in war.) The fact that Iran hasn't been able to do diddly squat in America should sink in the fact that they didn't compromise us. (EDIT: blep. I was wrong.)
- toomuchtodo 6mo agoIranian-Affiliated Cyber Actors Exploit Programmable Logic Controllers Across US Critical Infrastructure - https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa26-097a https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa... - April 7th, 2026
- JumpCrisscross 6mo agoDid they activate them to any noticeable effect?
- toomuchtodo 6mo agoTo my knowledge, not yet. The attack surface in question is extensive, and in my opinion, targets are likely unprepared for a determined and sophisticated attacker. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/07/iranian-hackers-energy-water-cybersecurity-00862018 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/07/iranian-hackers-ene...
- itintheory 6mo agoIt's 2026, and these PLCs etc. are directly connected to the internet? I think that's the most surprising aspect here.
- toomuchtodo 6mo ago
- laweijfmvo 6mo agoI can think of two I’d add to the list. One was recently publicly denied access to Anthropics models and the other was busy exploding pagers.
- sequoia 6mo agoNot clear how an LLM is going to prevent a bomb from being put in a custom-built pager, or why Anthropic should object to Israel waging war against a militia whose goal it is to destroy that country.
- kennywinker 6mo agoBecause they use LLMs to “intelligence-wash” targeting civilians, and murdered children by blowing up pagers in public areas (what you called “waging war against a militia”).
- sequoia 6mo agoOperating an armed group out of civilian areas is not “one weird trick” that makes you immune from attacks. It means you are endangering the civilians around you by putting them in harms way. No war has ever been waged without civilian casualties, Israel is the only country held to this standard. “Thousands” of Hezbollah pagers were exploded and there were apparently 2 children killed. This is a tragedy as is every civilian death, but that’s pretty amazingly targeted and an extremely low civilian death toll for thousands of bombs. For contrast, Hezbollah fired one single rocket and killed 12 children: https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-dark-day-for-majdal-shams-druze-community-grieves-after-hezbollah-strike-kills-12/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-dark-day-for-majdal-shams-dr...
- neonstatic 6mo agoLook, we have always been at war with EastAsia.