What a remarkably one-sided article. No mention of the American/British/European cyberwarfare efforts. It's like listening to a Liverpool - Chelsea Cup Final where only Chelsea's moves are being reported.

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Hmm wonder “if” the FAA was one of these federal targets. Edit: maybe that one employee who accidentally replaced one file that conveniently disrupted the entire nation’s air traffic for hours was a target? Maybe?

Yeah, and why don’t people immediately talk about any and all the atrocities the Allies did during every conversation about World War II? /s

You know why a Russia hacking group is need, and not other hacking groups? Because Russia is actively fighting against world peace and stability. Whereas the US in undeniably invested in peace and trade.

It's REALLY not hard to see past this "whataboutism"

Woah now. Why is your comment so one sided? Why are you not mentioning all the articles and propaganda the Russian media produces?

> Whereas the US in undeniably invested in peace

Haha fuck that’s a good one mate.

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Seriously? I mean I'm definitely on the side of the "good" guys but to imagine it is only the bad guys doing the hacking is to look at the world through rose colored glasses. I hope "our" guys are trying to hack into the Kremlin and cause as much disruption as possible. And I also imagine they are doing the same in Tehran.

Hanlon's Razor

Hacking is hardly a problem. End goal is a problem. Worst US has ever done is wrecking a uranium enrichment facility. It's mostly Intel gathering ops otherwise. I'm sure russians are prepared to do anything. I mean... Russians lie and deceive and attack and kill and rape and pillage and then we have surprised Pikachu faces when people trust US more.

I don’t think this case is adequately explained by stupidity …. Could you elaborate as to why that is more rational than a cyber attack? Especially given the geopolitical climate and the multiple warnings about cyber attacks in the near future?

... is a logical fallacy with possibly dire consequences.

Because causing annoyances in US civilian air travel doesn't affect the military all that much

Oh. Ok. I’ll see myself out. I was trying to be logical but, yeah. Ok.

Yeah, made a wild guess and called it logic

I mean if even snopes won’t rule it out then I wouldn’t call it “wild” brah https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/01/11/cyberattack-faa-system-outage/

"There's no evidence for it but..." seems to be the constant statements in that piece, so wild guess pretty well fits

You know, to zoom out and give some perspective on my position, I really really hope you’re right and neither of our opinions matter :(

> Worst US has ever done is wrecking a uranium enrichment facility

Oh ye of short memories - how long ago was it that the CIA were discovered to be hacking into the phones of German cabinet ministers including Chancellor Merkel?

They are all at it. MI6 will have been hacking the EU during Brexit negotiations.

That's what I'm saying. Intel gathering is just that. From russians I expect everything. Power killed to hospitals, wrecking electric grid and what not. They have showed they are capable to be reckless.