Foreign Affairs

Let's face it, attacking a country just solidifies its existing government. I've posted that a time or two, and so it goes with Iran. They know it. And they learned from 9/11. Did that take down the U.S. government?

But the country is being run by complete idiots. Predictable ones, and I believe that's the game that's being played (or not played). Just hit the U.S. client states in the area near Iran, and that includes mega data centers and so on.

Just my two cents' worth.

Taking down the U.S. is trivial. Regular and cyber defenses have been decimated by religious racists. A setup for the long-desired crisis that brings martial law.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220295160

Iranian hackers are busy right now attacking infrastructure, with leading cyber-defense experts at home watching baseball, having been canned. IMNSHO, having worked with computers for a very long time, "computer security" is a lie and a sick joke. Capitalism demands "throwing software over the divider" very often, and quality, checking and testing all cost precious money. I see at least one zero-day or critical alert a day. Software, ESPECIALLY infrastructure software that runs power plants, water plants, little things like airports and so on, is (IMNSHO) garbage.,

Iran attempting cyberattacks against critical U.S. infrastructure, officials say
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-04-07/iran-attempting-cyber-attacks-against-u-s-critical-infrastructure-officials-say

FBI labels suspected China hack of law enforcement data 'a major cyber incident'
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-04-07/iran-attempting-cyber-attacks-against-u-s-critical-infrastructure-officials-say

FBI declares suspected Chinese hack of US surveillance system a ‘major cyber incident’
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/01/fbi-hack-surveillance-system-major-incident-00854237

The designation suggests the hackers successfully compromised swathes of sensitive data stored directly on FBI systems.



Ask me about software patches.
On second thought, don't.
I'm happily retired from that shooting gallery.