“All we have is their shoe size, sexual preference, race, age, gender, location, porn habits, political affiliations, and credit card numbers. They might as well be in the wind, nothing we could have done.”
Gee it sure is good we have well funded competent national cybersecurity folks and didn’t lay a bunch of them off
“Flawless Opsec 👊🇺🇸🔥”
Yeah all those big scary Iranian hackers and terrorists making the every day American live in fear
Look, a real life retcon!
Both hacktivists and Iranian government-affiliated actors
This false dichotomy is pure propaganda. There is probably no higher form of hacktivism than defending a population from an imperial genocide.
Hm, let’s not forget this gem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)
The government also wants you to believe that Hamas is running AI bot farms with fiber ethernet under all that ruble. But what they don’t warn you about:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pro-israel-social-media-bot-falters-shares-pro-palestine-content
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-rise-of-digital-diplomacy-could-be-changing-israels-media-image/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/01/20/netanyahus-media-poison-machine
When they’re talking about “poorly secured US networks”, they’re referring to Truth Social, right?
You have no idea how much of our critical infrastructure is on the net and poorly secured. And that’s not even including the items (like solar inverters) found with undocumented cellular radios that would bypass any security measures put in place.
So glad we have a competent government full of people who understand their knowledge domain and totally aren’t fucking morons out in place to destroy every institution they can.
They’re referring to all the subsidized bureaucratic closed-source monopoly-spyware that they force you to buy for NSA-purposes.
Gee! Who could have predicted that! /s
Personally, Iranians hacking a bunch of computer systems are probably the least of our worries now. Jim Salter posted an image that makes a good analogy. https://fosstodon.org/@jimsalter/114730060651034011
It tells you, “DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) offers cybersecurity best practices for securing US networks.”
CISA workforce cut by nearly one-third so far
The agency has lost roughly 1,000 staffers in the wake of the Trump administration’s workforce cuts.
Source: https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-departures-trump-workforce-purge/749796/
so much money has been SAVED!!!
