Iranian military spear-phish of State Department employees detected first by Facebook

Cyber-espionage effort may be tied to the arrest of Iranian American in Tehran.

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fuzzyfuzzyfungus[/url]":36i0s16d]It's too bad that we don't have some sort of agency dedicated to national security, with the technical skills needed to protect sensitive operations and organizations like the State Department. Maybe we should try that.

On the upside, if Iranians can get in that easy, I'm pretty sure we have similar access to the Iranians' intel. I don't know if I'll get too much up in arms about this. At this point, it seems that offense has a huge upper hand over defense. Kinda how mortars and trebuchets had the upper hand over castle walls.

 

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fuzzyfuzzyfungus[/url]":5hfl6w1w]It's too bad that we don't have some sort of agency dedicated to national security, with the technical skills needed to protect sensitive operations and organizations like the State Department. Maybe we should try that.

On the upside, if Iranians can get in that easy, I'm pretty sure we have similar access to the Iranians' intel. I don't know if I'll get too much up in arms about this. At this point, it seems that offense has a huge upper hand over defense. Kinda how mortars and trebuchets had the upper hand over castle walls.

I believe he was being sarcastic.

I know. His point being that our defense sucks. My point being that everyone's defense sucks because the technology currently in play makes it so. It's not that castle builders sucked after the invention of the mortar, it's that castles were fundamentally reduced in capability by new technology.