What if the attack on Pearl Harbor could have been averted?
Today we are being told that the USA has been attacked and it is somehow similar to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. An enemy of the USA has supposedly gained access to nearly all of the governments communications network. They have spied on us and they could sabotage us remotely.
Do you really believe all those systems are connected and vulnerable to remote control?
If this is real the solution is straightforward. Unplug and set up a secure system from scratch. Nobody has died, nothing was damaged. This is an opportunity to study the breach, and learn from it. Invest some money into Linux, BSD, and the other alternative systems while you are thinking about it.
Depending on the competence of the admins and developers, returning to a secure state should be possible in hours, maybe a long day, maybe a month if porting tools need to be developed, longer if the problem is really bad. I wonder if this only affects those old Windows XP systems the government got extended patches for. Don't misunderstand, XP is awesome, but it's not secure. Whatever the issue, we are told that the problem is beyond our capabilities, and that it will take months or years to remedy.
That's embarrassing. It's also a lie.
This is pretext for the USA to do something aggressive. Now the warhawks can break something and blame it on whomever they wish, Russia, China Iran, Venezuela, maybe a terrorist cell operating from a basement in Libya.
Perhaps the government ought to seek compensation from the likes of Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, and VMware. Who dropped the ball?
I believe hacking does take place, just the other day we were told about documents illegally acquired from China that enumerate millions of CCP members living and working abroad. Should China respond with physical aggression?
If there is any truth to this it merely highlights the incompetence of the tech sector which has been peddling lies and false confidence for decades.
Don't buy the hype, say no to war.
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