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In the worst-case scenarios that the Biden administration has quietly simulated over the past year or so, Russian hackers working on behalf of Vladimir V. Putin bring down hospital systems across the United States. In others, China’s military hackers trigger chaos, shutting down water systems and electric grids to distract Americans from an invasion of Taiwan.

Burgerlanders are so important that the seeseepee will make your toilet overflow to distract you from epic Slava Taiwani

Such a perfect encapsulation of liberal propaganda

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      5 months ago

      That’s been a mediocre action movie plot for decades, I’m sure this isn’t the first time US adversaries are seeing it lol.

    • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      5 months ago

      Sounds like a very efficient way to cripple American society

      The NYT times is out here implying that China and Russia would have to hack individual things like power stations or whatever, when the actual lesson is that the vast majority of the world is crippled by attacking one cybersecurity vendor