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Cyberattack halts construction of tunnel between Denmark and Germany

80 points paaloeye 2 hours ago 36 comments

2PqboPPmKegvanx 1 hour ago | parent

well, shit.

1287-asf 1 hour ago | parent

It is like reading The Onion:

[x] Outsourcing identification to Internet companies (likely US).

[x] Outsourcing operational state of equipment to Internet companies (likely US).

[x] Displacing German and Danish workers with cheaper Poles.

[x] Cyber council member floats hybrid war rather than addressing its own incompetence.

[x] News comes from Kiev instead of Copenhagen.

paaloeye 1 hour ago | parent

Last one is uncalled for. Here is your CPH source if you can Danish: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074900

undebuggable 55 minutes ago | parent

> [x] Displacing German and Danish workers with cheaper Poles.

I beg you pardon. I'm not cheap, but I'm also not employed. You want cheap so you get it.

schaum 43 minutes ago | parent

Polska Gurom

artisinal 33 minutes ago | parent

I wonder if the Eastern European workers on the German part of the tunnel are paid below minimum wage or if that is only allowed for agriculture.

patcon 26 minutes ago | parent

I do trust critique on this stuff from throwaways. The utter cheapness of manufacturing provocateurs against EU interests, mean you need to bring your reputation to be taken seriously with the potshots imho

BlackRabbit1 25 minutes ago | parent

[x] BSI certified security

(Joking)

atleastoptimal 1 hour ago | parent

AI will exponentially increase the number of cyberattacks. The likely outcome is

1. Legacy firmware will be a bloodbath, leading to a consolidation of firms

2. All digital infrastructure will have an always on AI "shield" of agents that monitor and defend against attacks

3. The attacks that survive will depend on human points of failure, leading to less control for humans being the default

swingandamiss 6 minutes ago | parent

Just updated my openwrt firmware yesterday. I was a minor point release behind but I'm no longer risking it.

233mhz 5 minutes ago | parent

Why do we always talk about ai capabilities in the future tense?

What's stopping them from doing these right now? Script kiddies have basically reverse engineered the PS5 at that point, do you think state actors need better models?

thinker34 16 minutes ago | parent

The Russia-Ukraine war has all signs to lead the world into world war 3 if its not stopped. All these sabotage acts will continue across the globe to drag more countries into the mix. What is the UN Security council doing?. Nobody hears their efforts to stop anything

embedding-shape 12 minutes ago | parent

> What is the UN Security council doing?

What do you expect UN Security Council to do here, really? Two of the permanent members are waging offensive wars without cause, and Russia keeps vetoing anything about Ukraine, and the US keeps vetoing anything about Gaza/Israel and Iran. What exactly could they realistically do, in your opinion?

doubtitis 8 minutes ago | parent

I really have no factual basis to claim this, but based on the power balances, I would say that most of "russian", "chinese", "iranian" etc cyber attacks originate (at least the command is being given), from some geographical point in North America. Langley? Pentagon? Who knows.. but false flags are your specialty..

233mhz 8 minutes ago | parent

Let me guess, we have to war now to... prevent... a war?

Zanfa 6 minutes ago | parent

US wouldn't need to join the war for Ukraine to prevail. Not trying to force it to unconditionally surrender would be a good start.

mosesman 15 minutes ago | parent

There was a cyberattack in France with 350-400 supermarkets having its fridges heated to 50C, instantly defrosting and spoiling food.

When your fridges hit 50C, that’s not a bug... thats a hotfix

olelele 14 minutes ago | parent

badum-tsch

ErroneousBosh 11 minutes ago | parent

This is going to be another "OMG AI is going to cause all these cyberattacks!11!!1!" thing that turns out to be "any child can find these on Shodan and the hardcoded can't-be-disabled Gott-tier login is admin/admin, isn't it?

It is, isn't it?

Again.