The USA lets themselves get hacked by putting random junk into important infrastructure without thinking.
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2025
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Listen, being able to open and close a drawbridge on your phone from hundreds of miles away is pretty damn awesome.
Except when criminals can just hack your house, see that you are not at home, and then disarm the alarm and open the door remotely...
Generally not a concern unless you are a high profile target.
If they could do that, they would likely be making more money from an honest living than they would breaking into homes in suburbia.
Most burglary and b&e is a crime of opportunity. Getting an easy target. What you're talking about about is the stuff of fantasy...the way Hollywood warps our perception of crime.
Why go through the trouble of hacking your security system and unlocking your door...when the neighbors house doesn't even have motion lights?
For every Danny Ocean, there's million Tyrone Biggums.
I'm not arguing with you here but that word... GENERALLY.
Maybe your neighbour IS a high value target and you're close enough physically that hacking your wpa2 wifi network makes sense.
Like. You're not wrong but this attitude just makes it even harder for anyone that would need assistance to get it. Like. Shit happens. Idk.
China does not want to own nor invade our chaotic political and social hellhole, nor do they want to destroy us.
They want us knocked down a few pegs so that they have economic advantages and so that the US doesn't have as much international leverage.
That's the extent of how super-powers view each other in a massively interconnected world. There is probably only a fraction of the population who really understand how incredibly huge and complicated our supply chains are, and how fragile it is, and what the consequences are of disrupting this beating pulse that keeps the world fed.
The danger is from rogue nations who are desperately trying to cling to or achieve "super power" status so they have that leverage themselves or maintain it even as it's slipping away. Such as Russia right now, a nation so mismanaged that they genuinely saw gambling with a forever war as their best alternative for growth. The USA is going to be like that in about a generation or two as we continue to let oligarchy gut us.
That's what happens when you fire your cyber security experts.
We also sacked the department of education, so bye bye future.
And the US is actively shooting themselves in the foot by continuing to fire competent "woke" people and replacing them with the closest Nepo doofus.
Corruption does that, yeah.
Idiots who voted for this should have been reminded by corporate news but ‘somehow’ that never happens
Note it says capacity because there is no point when they can sit back and watch the self destructive death spiral. Its like do we care to hack countries where paramilitary types walk around with ar15 looking guns, body armor, and covered faces. Maybe in very specific circumstances but otherwise they, at least used to be, below our notice.
Yeah the have increased capacity to hack the Taliban as well
This was Trumps master plan all along. You can't hack something, if there's nothing to be hacked. Genius!
I thought we defunded cyber on purpose?
And China can simply purchase access I thought? We are total sell outs.
Bruh just buy access like the Russians do.