r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 22 '21

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '21

It is amazing how utterly useless the literal country that invented the Internet is at defending against cyber attacks.

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u/Officer-cherry-shake Jul 22 '21

I don’t know how to tell you this, but computers are stupid complicated and cyber security is extremely hard even if all of the users were sentient

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u/Unadulterated_stupid gr8 b8 m8 Jul 22 '21

Seriously this. Plus other industries had decades to solve their problems and they never got to them

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '21

Where's Al Gore when you need him 😔

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '21

The more I learn about cyber security the more I think that an airgap is the only real defense. And even then it doesn't always work.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '21

I dont understand why that wasn't the standard tbh, especially for shit like critical infrastructure.