barrbaric [he/him]

Thank you comrade bee

Computers in offices used by the NNSA were compromised. Those computers themselves are not tied into any of the controls involving nuclear weapons, but are used in offices, some of which may have been on bases with launch sites. There may have been some intelligence that could be gained from these computers that may describe some things like operations at nuclear facilities, or supply chains. All of the computers involved are almost certainly being wiped, so there will be no ongoing backdoors.

It must also be noted that there’s a decent chance that this was just hackers unaffiliated with the Chinese government doing a ransomware attack on whatever they could find using the microsoft sharepoint vulnerability, and that this just happened to hit this department.

I feel like it’s certainly possible, you do occasionally hear stories of outlandish hacks. That said, I’d say it’s not very likely, and for it to actually matter they’d have to simultaneously hit not only every US missile launch site, but also every nuclear sub and bomber.

Yep, they’re part of the nuclear triad, which consists of land-based ICBMs, submarine-based missiles, and aircraft carrying nuclear bombs.

All the control systems that actually launch the nukes are air-gapped and cannot be hacked by typical methods. They only stopped using floppy disks in 2019. This is just saying that some DoE offices got hacked, which really means nothing.

You’d need something like a stuxnet-level worm, and even then, I can guarantee you that those consoles are secure enough that nobody is going to plug a random USB stick they found in a parking lot into them. Further, nobody would reveal that news, either China or the US, because you wouldn’t tell your enemy that either you broke their MAD abilities or that they broke your MAD abilities.

Oh wow I sure care what any group operating out of Israel has to say about the ongoing genocide they’re committing, surely they will be impartial!

Death to the zionist entity, death to their supporters, and death to the IDF.

It’s suspicious that a Presidential Daily Briefing was postponed to make way for ICA ordered at Obama’s request, fishier yet that the evidence that Putin intended to help Trump came from a classified annex containing Steele dossier material, but the smoking gun is that these eventual conclusions leaked instantly — not one or two weeks after Obama ordered the ICA, but the same day, before any group work could possibly have been done.

If your “smoking gun” can be written off entirely as coincidence, it doesn’t seem like you have much of a case. Not to mention, what damage did this even cause? The article claims that Trump people “went to jail, fell ill, went through family crises, and dealt with other serious problems”. Frankly, who cares? I’d applaud the dems if they could do as good a job of ratfucking republicans as they already do the left.

BECMI ends with Immortals, so the concept of playing extremely powerful characters has always been around. While I’d imagine the vast majority never played with those rules, the same is true for modern D&D. A vanishingly small number of games actually make it to level 20.

I once had windows quarantine the download files, claiming they were viruses. Had to manually add an exception and then it worked fine.

In the US transit mostly doesn’t exist beyond buses that barely ever run.

Ideally he could have fragged some higher ups, but this will have to do

Hmm, do I pay for a service that has ads, or do I simply ? It is impossible to make this decision.

Sure, there’s a two-way relationship, but the US is the global hegemon (or at least was until very recently), while Israel is a regional power. They may both influence each other, but the US has more say in the relationship.

After years of disingenuous showy tributes and 100% accurate accusations of ‘rainbow-washing’, US companies are shrinking back for fear of Donald Trump because they think it’s more profitable, Io Dodds reports

He may have done just that and its forced positivity convinced him he was a genius.

Most honest US politician says unlimited force to protect his elevated position is fine, but the tiniest amount of force protesting that position is illegal terrorism.

We’ve seen it before with Reagan and Biden. They’ll Weekend at Bernie’s his ass, no problem.

Yes, they’re the only major power doing anything to stop climate change, but they’re doing it for the wrong reasons!

Wouldn’t it be going to the fifth circuit and then the supreme court, both of which are controlled by outright christofascists? Why would they even bother?

For Interstellar, at least, I’d say it’s incredibly low-brow. The resolution is just “the power of wuv saves humanity!”, which is extremely simplistic and easily understood by the masses.