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[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/18/what-is-pegasus-spyware-and-how-does-it-hack-phones](Well crap. We’re fucked then?)
Well crap, we're fucked then?
Title then link
We are just as fucked as we’ve always been. Hackers use zero-day vulnerabilities. Can’t do too much about that. Any device is hackable. That became clear after Snowden, and the USA hacking irans centrifuge.
The US hacking Iran's centrifuges would have been preventable though with careful device management as far as I understand. The worm they used, Stuxnet, didn't come from nowhere. It either came from a USB that hadn't been properly sanitized or their systems were connected to an external, unprotected network when they definitely should have been isolated. That's a preventable virus and unrelated to conversations about backdoors being built into technology for governments to access.
Yup. If you can’t hack over the network, you can hack them into psychologically creating a vulnerability
People are pretty much always the weakest link when it comes to security.
Weren't Iran's centrifuges only hacked because they used off-the-shelf parts made in the U.S.?
We dropped a USB stick in the parking lot and they plugged the virus into the system lol
I don't know that part would have made much difference, they were already air gapped and the NSA probably could have figured out just about any centrifuge: The hard part was delivering the payload, which was apparently delivered via a rubber ducky left in a parking lot.
Goddamn that’s scary
Can't we even avoid that by using lineage or graphene? We're really fucked unless we are like cybersec experts...