There I was, 10,000 years ago, when Nigerian’s oil was stolen from the US by Nigerians. That oil is rightfully ours.

Piracy is when non-government entities do it. This is technically privateering.

Edit: not technically privateering

Remember when the Trump administration designated a random gang named MS13 a major terror organization? What did that event lead to? What parallels can be drawn between that event and this event? Hmmmm

Those ATC guys should really consider forming a union…

I will add the following:

US was looking at this before Trump took office (Dec 2024)

https://www.itpro.com/security/the-us-could-be-set-to-ban-tp-link-routers

TP Link’s sloppy security lead to the creation of a Chinese botnet.

https://cybernews.com/security/chinese-hackers-hijacked-thousands-of-tp-link-wifi-routers/

Here are two new vulnerabilities from this month.

Here are some more exploits from 2023

Here are all the TPLink vulnerablies known publicly

Am I really at risk, and anymore than I would be with something from Linksys or Netgear?

As always, depends on your threat model. I have cheap TPLink switch in my home network because its cheap and kept behind a pfsense firewall. The TPLink switch is not allowed to talk to the internet. This is good enough for me as I don’t have a threat model where something attacks the switch from inside my network.

For completeness here are Cisco’s and Netgear’s vulnerabilities. Infosec security is a journey, not a destination.

Good. TPLink makes cartoonishly insecure consumer grade equipment. A better solution is that the US establishes some minimum infosec standards for this equipment, but that would require time and thought.

I’m sure Israel is equally concerned

Are you telling me it wasn’t caused by someone dropping a lit cigarette near fuel?

Ah yes. Talent programs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Talents_Plan

I wonder how they intend to tackle white collar crime.

in which U.S. personnel with security clearances supervise foreign engineers, including those in China.

From the security clearance perspective there really isn’t any difference between China based engineers, Chinese spies, and Joe America accessing classified code without being cleared by the DoD.

If an individual did this “escort” scheme, they would be arrested.

A bit late to the party.

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Can the armed drone open classroom doors better than Uvalde police officers?

I’ve been saying for years the thing Spotify needs are short vertical format video clips. The whole “music” thing is a fad.

Yeah we kinda need an actual ceasefire before enforcing any kinda of peacekeeping operation. Also this isn’t two waring African nation, if a German peacekeeping force engages with the Russian army that should probably trigger a NATO response.

My ethical gun is safer than your criminal gun.

Being in jail actually makes it harder to return work.