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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday May 08 2019, @08:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the taking-swatting-to-the-next-level dept.

This weekend, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) launched an airstrike at Hamas's Cyber HQ in an apparently first of its kind real-time physical response by a nation state targeting the source of a cyber attack (as far as we know).

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has launched a physical attack on Hamas in response to an alleged cyber attack. A strike launched by Israeli forces targeted a building in the Gaza Strip that was hosting Hamas cyber army.

The IDF adopted a hybrid approach, it first stopped the cyber attack carried out by Hamas, then once it [had] localized the source of the offensive launched an airstrike.

This is simultaneously an evolution in hybrid-warfare and a return to levels of physical violence in the conflict between Hamas and Israel that hasn't been seen for five years.

The United States has reserved the right to retaliate similarly against cyber attacks since 2011, but has not done so.

The US had considered kinetic responses to a cyber attack:

State-backed hacking and physical warfare have been on a slow but steady path toward convergence for about two decades, and both information security and warfare researchers say that it was only a matter of time before a nation launched a kinetic attack against enemy hackers. "When I joined the very first Cyber Command in April 1999, we were talking about that as a serious thing in case it was needed," says Jason Healey, a former staffer in the George W. Bush White House and current cyberconflict researcher at Columbia University. "I wouldn't say we necessarily had plans for it, but we were thinking it through."

That's an expensive wrench


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by fyngyrz on Thursday May 09 2019, @02:57PM (1 child)

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Thursday May 09 2019, @02:57PM (#841347) Journal

    Also numerous soldier's biographies. And trial records.

    Someone (who is a prolific shitposter, so perhaps they would know) told me I had been trolled by the above "what Holocaust?" post. Possibly so. Because it is difficult for me to comprehend the level of ignorance that would allow anyone with even the slightest grasp of history to take such a stance. But. We see other examples of profound ignorance here on a regular basis. So... yeah. Could have been either one.

    I have to admit that when I see people trying to rewrite history to excuse or deny such horrors, I am more than a little tweaked. If we cannot maintain as accurate as possible a view of our past, we will be less able to learn from it. Troll or not, people as the above are complicit. As trolls, mindfully so, which may actually be worse. Assholes, one and all.

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    Me: "You need to seriously calm down."

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 09 2019, @11:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 09 2019, @11:16PM (#841596)

    One of the main reasons for holocaust denialism is it has become the Israeli answer to any criticism. People see it being used cynically and start disbelieving it.
    "Why are you bombing Palestinians?" - "but Holocaust you anti-semite."
    "Why are you stealing Palestinian land?" - "but Holocaust you anti-semite."
    "Why are you systematically draining Palestinian water wells?" - "but Holocaust you anti-semite."

    Overuse something and it loses its effectiveness. People are tired of being told that they have to make special allowances for certain people because of what some unrelated people did to other unrelated people 75 years ago on the other side of the world.

    Did the holocaust happen ? yes.
    Was it bad? yes.
    How old is anybody who was complicit? At least 92 (if they were 18 when the war finished).
    Is it worth chasing them? No.
    How many people were killed? about 11,000,000.
    How many of them were Jews? about 6,000,000.
    Why are the others forgotten?
    Why is the holocaust so much worse than the long march, which killed 50,000,000, or Stalin's purges which killed 20,000,000, or the killing fields which killed 3,000,000?