"...Attacks on those companies would begin from 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1, Tehran time (12:30 p.m. EDT), the IRGC said in a post on Telegram translated by Google, warning employees at those companies to leave workplaces immediately to protect their lives...
The list of companies also featured Cisco, HP, Intel, Oracle, IBM, Dell, Palantir, JP Morgan, Tesla, GE, Spire Solutions, Boeing
and UAE-based AI company G42. ..."
Here's what I don't understand, why doesn't the US simply cut their connections to the world. It's quite easy to find fiber optic locations...cut them.
Instead of flinging bombs and missiles, take out their knees with some cable cutters.
Surely they would have terrestrial connections to the North. And this could encourage Iran to cut all the other fibre links that run through the region.
> Here's what I don't understand, why doesn't the US simply cut their connections to the world. It's quite easy to find fiber optic locations...cut them.
Iran cut it itself. Its running its own domestic internet where everything domestic works. All domestic banks, apps.
Literal arrogance to think that the US owns the world.
You are being cited for excessive assumptions. OP did not say or infer the US owns the world. You don't have to "own" the world to attempt cutting a country off from those connections.
Not sure how that determines "Literal arrogance...". My assumption, perhaps naive, is that Iran had connections to the outside world from which the hacking was taking place.
You can buy access to compromised computers anywhere in the world. This would require cutting off any path to anywhere in the world, since the person performing the attacks can also be anywhere in the world.
The US isolating itself from the rest of the world isn't financially feasible.
Iran is sanctioned for so long now, they had no other choice than to become as independent as possible.
Cutting communications hinders iran less then outsiders trying to spark a revolution. I think thats also a reason why russia and other autocratic nations have internet kill switches too.
> I think thats also a reason why russia and other autocratic nations have internet kill switches too.
They have that for the same reason they always have a military, even if it's 100 years behind anyone else's - to keep the populace in check. A T-55 might be completely obsolete against a cheap FPV drone, but it's still a formidable weapon against a crowd of unarmed people.
AWS me-south-1 got hit (again) earlier today.
[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591208
"...Attacks on those companies would begin from 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1, Tehran time (12:30 p.m. EDT), the IRGC said in a post on Telegram translated by Google, warning employees at those companies to leave workplaces immediately to protect their lives...
The list of companies also featured Cisco, HP, Intel, Oracle, IBM, Dell, Palantir, JP Morgan, Tesla, GE, Spire Solutions, Boeing and UAE-based AI company G42. ..."
There is a possibility the IRGC are trolling, given it's April's Fool today.
I guess this is supposed to be funny but I wouldn’t take that chance.
Sovereign AI adds another layer of meaning now that sovereignties are at war.
So they mean to strike those companies with a presence in the middle east? Surely they don't think they can hit US mainland?
Yes, they certainly mean they will attack those companies facilities in the region.
Here's what I don't understand, why doesn't the US simply cut their connections to the world. It's quite easy to find fiber optic locations...cut them.
Instead of flinging bombs and missiles, take out their knees with some cable cutters.
Surely they would have terrestrial connections to the North. And this could encourage Iran to cut all the other fibre links that run through the region.
Because they have already done that themselves.
> Here's what I don't understand, why doesn't the US simply cut their connections to the world. It's quite easy to find fiber optic locations...cut them.
Iran cut it itself. Its running its own domestic internet where everything domestic works. All domestic banks, apps.
Literal arrogance to think that the US owns the world.
Please pull over sir - weeee ooooo weeee ooo.
You are being cited for excessive assumptions. OP did not say or infer the US owns the world. You don't have to "own" the world to attempt cutting a country off from those connections.
Dipshit alert - weeee ooooo weeee ooo. > why doesn't the US simply cut their connections to the world
This does sound exactly as arrogant as it is.
Not sure how that determines "Literal arrogance...". My assumption, perhaps naive, is that Iran had connections to the outside world from which the hacking was taking place.
Are the Iranian hackers not within Iran?
You can buy access to compromised computers anywhere in the world. This would require cutting off any path to anywhere in the world, since the person performing the attacks can also be anywhere in the world.
The US isolating itself from the rest of the world isn't financially feasible.
Iran is sanctioned for so long now, they had no other choice than to become as independent as possible.
Cutting communications hinders iran less then outsiders trying to spark a revolution. I think thats also a reason why russia and other autocratic nations have internet kill switches too.
> litteral arrogance
True.
> I think thats also a reason why russia and other autocratic nations have internet kill switches too.
They have that for the same reason they always have a military, even if it's 100 years behind anyone else's - to keep the populace in check. A T-55 might be completely obsolete against a cheap FPV drone, but it's still a formidable weapon against a crowd of unarmed people.
How did OP imply anything? He asked why one of the parties in the conflict don’t cut cables.