Comment by rakel_rakel
1 day ago
> On the global stage, state-sponsored attacks from actors like China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have threatened to compromise the infrastructure that underpins both civilian life and military readiness.
AITA for thinking that PRISM was probably the state sponsored program affecting civilian life the most? And that one state is missing from the list here?
> Large American AI company does not list the US as an adversarial actor
This is not a surprise or a gotcha.
Said company is literally in court against said government at the moment, after said government attempted to designate it too dangerous to do business with.
There are currently over 1,000 companies involved in lawsuits against the US government right now even if we restrict ourselves to just tariff lawsuits.
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AFAIK Apple also "denied FBI to decrypt iPhone" while participating in PRISM
I can think of two I’d add to the list. One was recently publicly denied access to Anthropics models and the other was busy exploding pagers.
Not clear how an LLM is going to prevent a bomb from being put in a custom-built pager, or why Anthropic should object to Israel waging war against a militia whose goal it is to destroy that country.
Because they use LLMs to “intelligence-wash” targeting civilians, and murdered children by blowing up pagers in public areas (what you called “waging war against a militia”).
> PRISM was probably the state sponsored program affecting civilian life the most?
No state-sponsored hacking affected Americans materially. I just don't think we were networked enough in the 2010s. The risk is higher now since we're in a more warmongering world. (Kompromat on a power-plant technician is a risk in peace. It means blackouts in war.)
The fact that Iran hasn't been able to do diddly squat in America should sink in the fact that they didn't compromise us. (EDIT: blep. I was wrong.)
Iranian-Affiliated Cyber Actors Exploit Programmable Logic Controllers Across US Critical Infrastructure - https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa... - April 7th, 2026
Did they activate them to any noticeable effect?
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>No state-sponsored hacking affected Americans materially.
Uh, what?
NotPetya was kind of a big deal.
Not in the US. I had to look it up and I work in infrastructure software
The irony of that statement given the current circumstances
How did PRISM affect civilian life?
Honest question: how do state-sponsored attacks from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia affect civilian life?
Presumably, those have influenced elections, though I guess it depends what you count as an attack.
Plenty of bots try to modify public opinion. Someone hacked the DNC in 2015/16, the result of which also alleged attempted manipulation in 2008:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee_...
Since we (as old Rummy said) do not know what we do not know, we cannot be certain about the extent of cyber attacks and what they might have influenced, and may not know these things until discoveries decades later, if ever.
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WannaCry massively affected the NHS.
century energy ransomware no?
Look, we have always been at war with EastAsia.
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