Here's the link

In my rather poorly informed opinion, these developments are something exciting to look forward to. While some may make a substantial claim that the DCEP may be misused (but in reality, what isn't), it will be fun to observe how the world responds :)

anyhow did u exercise today, lib?

  • CompactTie34 [he/him]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    disabled a whole nuclear power plant

    can we get a source? sounds crazy wild

    • Sushi_Desires
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      4 years ago

      They're talking about Stuxnet I believe. The even crazier part of this is that re-engineered forms of Stuxnet have been found in the wild. I used to have a RSS feed of the cybersecurity blogs from a whole bunch of malware / cybersecurity companies, but all that was lost to a dead HDD, I'll see if I can dig anything up


      I just cant remember who I used to follow, but you could probably put together a pretty interesting feed from the sources curated in this list: https://blog.feedspot.com/cyber_security_rss_feeds/

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        IIRC Stuxnet was actually so pervasive that all nuclear facilities have to be air-gapped now.

        Source: A guy I know who worked at a nuclear facility in a US-allied country said that one day a bunch of American government types (he thinks DHS) showed up and told them that they could no longer use unsanitized USBs on any computers, because of a chance they'd be infected.

        • Sushi_Desires
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          4 years ago

          I can definitely believe that. I believe the US gov or one of the 3 letter agencies holds at lest one patent for a claw-like device that physically rips USB slots from new computers (lol). I remember from maybe 6 years or so ago there was this "BadUSB" attack that was proof-of-concept[ed] by researchers that could like gain root access thru the USB firmware