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POTUS 46.10: A New Hope

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You have to love a man who just has zero fucks to give! It is why he beat Trump and it is why he is polling at like 60%. Any other time in history he probably looks like a buffoon but post Trump, in a world where facts don't matter to 40% of the country he is a breathe of fucking fresh air. He was never my candidate but I am proud to say I voted for him!
 
Not sure where to put this question, other than here- since the executive is the one handling it more, I suppose.

So for the hackers that are back in the news- can they be hacked back??? Given they are attacking software people, it *seems* that there would be some good counter hacking skills available.

Or is that too simplistic of thinking?
 
MichVandal said:
Not sure where to put this question, other than here- since the executive is the one handling it more, I suppose.

So for the hackers that are back in the news- can they be hacked back??? Given they are attacking software people, it *seems* that there would be some good counter hacking skills available.

Or is that too simplistic of thinking?
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That's the question of 21'st Century Warfare. I'm sure the military absolutely has offensive countermeasures in place for something like this.
 
MichVandal said:
Not sure where to put this question, other than here- since the executive is the one handling it more, I suppose.

So for the hackers that are back in the news- can they be hacked back??? Given they are attacking software people, it *seems* that there would be some good counter hacking skills available.

Or is that too simplistic of thinking?
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We hack the hell out of them, both officially through our Pentagon DIA and other CI entities, and unofficially through the same kind of guys they get to hack us.

It's basically open warfare which neither side wants to acknowledge since then the apes would want war, war, war.

Also, while the US, China, Israel, and Russia are about even with each other we are all lightyears better than anybody else so we are all using that asymmetry to screw our particular small fry adversaries, and it's not really in any of the big guys' interests to blow the whistle too hard on the game (c.f., nukes).

The idiots like Iran and North Korea who try to hack but can only harm really soft, stupid targets are the only "problem" during peacetime. They are like small scale regional aggressors who cause problems. Meanwhile, the approved powers all constantly probe each other while looking the other way.

The guys who hate, hate, hate the status quo are Japan, India, and the EU, because they aren't good enough to defend against their adversary (China, China, Russia, respectively) but they also can't get the US to go nuclear on all hacking because it's a big American offensive weapon (c.f., landmines).
 
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We hack the hell out of them, both officially through our Pentagon DIA and other CI entities, and unofficially through the same kind of guys they get to hack us.

It's basically open warfare which neither side wants to acknowledge since then the apes would want war, war, war.

Also, while the US, China, Israel, and Russia are about even with each other we are all lightyears better than anybody else so we are all using that asymmetry to screw our particular small fry adversaries, and it's not really in any of the big guys' interests to blow the whistle too hard on the game (c.f., nukes).

The idiots like Iran and North Korea who try to hack but can only harm really soft, stupid targets are the only "problem" during peacetime. They are like small scale regional aggressors who cause problems. Meanwhile, the approved powers all constantly probe each other while looking the other way.

The guys who hate, hate, hate the status quo are Japan, India, and the EU, because they aren't good enough to defend against their adversary (China, China, Russia, respectively) but they also can't get the US to go nuclear on all hacking because it's a big American offensive weapon (c.f., landmines).
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When China or Russia gets hacked it doesn't make the news given the press restrictions in those countries.
 
Drew S. said:
When China or Russia gets hacked it doesn't make the news given the press restrictions in those countries.
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Also true of 90% of our USG hacks.

As a rule, you don't like to advertise that you've been penetrated.

This isn't the South. <-- REALLY, REALLY NSFW
 
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Drew S. said:
When China or Russia gets hacked it doesn't make the news given the press restrictions in those countries.
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For China, that would make more sense, because they want both sides of the coin- harm the US and take our money via slavish labor.

Russia, on the other hand, they have regressed into a hole so much that the propaganda against the US would be useful. Especially against Biden.
 
RaceBoarder said:
That's the question of 21'st Century Warfare. I'm sure the military absolutely has offensive countermeasures in place for something like this.
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So what about software companies? Unless the defense Dept had that deep of pockets, it's really likely that the software companies have more talent employed for counter hacking. At least to the point where they can screw up what they are doing for a long time.
 
MichVandal said:
So what about software companies? Unless the defense Dept had that deep of pockets, it's really likely that the software companies have more talent employed for counter hacking. At least to the point where they can screw up what they are doing for a long time.
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The best software companies have black hat teams that can wipe the floor with the NSA and NRO.

But there are 17-year old sociopathic meth addicts in Russia who can wipe the floor with the best software companies.

It's like anything else: the smart guy gets A's in college and goes to work for the government. The brilliant guy drops out of college and goes to work for the private sector. The genius drops off the radar in middle school, has no capacity to work in any structured environment, and either becomes a mercenary, a terrorist, a prophet, or a corpse.
 
Biden is stuck playing the hand he's been dealt, but unlike Obama who likely felt compelled to be demure in his commentary on a lot of Republican bullsh*t tactics because of his race, Biden has no such issues calling it out.
 
Kepler said:
I disagree strongly. Since taking office he's been great by any standard. This is an instance where the job made the man.
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I am talking about his antics, not the policy aspects. He would be ripped for being "unpresidential".
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Biden is stuck playing the hand he's been dealt, but unlike Obama who likely felt compelled to be demure in his commentary on a lot of Republican bullsh*t tactics because of his race, Biden has no such issues calling it out.
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Agreed. Even if back in the day he would have felt the need to be closer to how Obama acted the way the GOP acted leading up to the election (especially towards his family) killed any shot of that. I mean he watched as the people who used to pretend to be his friend basically doused his son in gasoline and lit a match while also disrespecting his wife and even his late son.
 
aparch said:
I thought that was the evangelical version of The Onion until I kept reading and realized they were serious.
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Another Echo Chamber organ giving its rubes what they want.
 
Kepler said:
The best software companies have black hat teams that can wipe the floor with the NSA and NRO.

But there are 17-year old sociopathic meth addicts in Russia who can wipe the floor with the best software companies.

It's like anything else: the smart guy gets A's in college and goes to work for the government. The brilliant guy drops out of college and goes to work for the private sector. The genius drops off the radar in middle school, has no capacity to work in any structured environment, and either becomes a mercenary, a terrorist, a prophet, or a corpse.
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Do these same meth heads break into unsuspecting Siberian families’ homes in the middle of the night? Asking for a friend.
 
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