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FarrenH

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20. Cut the hard lines?

Reply to onehandle (Reply #3)

Sat Nov 8, 2014, 10:49 PM

Nov 2014

If you mean "take that infrastructure in questions off the Internet and make it accessible only by direct connection" then it makes sense. If you mean "disconnect the Internet" it doesn't.

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Report: Russian Hackers Have Infiltrated The US [View all] Purveyor Nov 2014 OP

THIS is why it is stupid to put critical infrastructure on the Internet in the first place. nt bemildred Nov 2014 #1

Isn't that the truth. defacto7 Nov 2014 #6

All they care about is profits. bemildred Nov 2014 #14

This newthinking Nov 2014 #11

Wonderful. femmocrat Nov 2014 #2

No fucking shit. Cut the hard lines to Russia, China, Korea... All of Asia. onehandle Nov 2014 #3

We can't even protect ourselves. Russia and China have surely seperated their military newthinking Nov 2014 #9

Cut the hard lines? FarrenH Nov 2014 #20

It sounds just like the Y2K scare. bluedigger Nov 2014 #4

Yes, I was fooled by the Y-2 scare RebelOne Nov 2014 #21

That again? HomerRamone Nov 2014 #5

Ha! MattSh Nov 2014 #13

Maybe they are hidden among these... jtuck004 Nov 2014 #7

Of course if we have another crash it will be the "Russians" fault? newthinking Nov 2014 #8

FEAR, FEAR, FEAR! GIVE UP YOUR PRIVACY SO WE CAN PROTECT YOU!!! -NSA Odin2005 Nov 2014 #10

If NSA spent their time stopping this shit 99th_Monkey Nov 2014 #12

Good thing we have a National Security Agency to keep everything secure. Downwinder Nov 2014 #15

And that's the big problem with having everything leftyladyfrommo Nov 2014 #16

I misread this as "Russian Hookers Have Inflitrated the US" nt Tommy_Carcetti Nov 2014 #17

This is like a teaser for a Die Hard film or something. Unreal. nt JudyM Nov 2014 #18

Of course our hackers have probably infiltrated leftyladyfrommo Nov 2014 #19