-Sh1fty-
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you SOB

nah public school
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Protip: Read the OP and any article linked in the OP before making wild pronouncements. Do not rely on what your mom thinks she heard on Fox.
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krazed
Admiral of the Bathtub
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fox = the truth
-Sh1fty-
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krazed wrote:

fox = the truth
CNN, MSNBC, ABC, etc. = selective left-wring coverage
Fox News = selective right-wing coverage

Pick your poison
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The X stands for
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-Sh1fty- wrote:

krazed wrote:

fox = the truth
CNN, MSNBC, ABC, etc. = selective left-wring coverage
Fox News = selective right-wing coverage
Any of those would be preferable to your mom.
Fuck Israel
krazed
Admiral of the Bathtub
+619|7020|Great Brown North
regurgitating what someone told you when they heard half of a story on fox = the truth
unnamednewbie13
Moderator
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What shifty's mom says is apparently a big enough deal to people in this thread to threaten to derail it completely. Can we drop it?

But I suppose while it's slightly off-topic...

Macbeth wrote:

The. U.S. is a democratic republic. You can have a constitution and still be a *monarchy or something else.
Constitutional republic is more apt.

Also: *Constitutional monarchy.
FatherTed
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i'll derail shiftys mum
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FEOS
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Uzique wrote:

FEOS wrote:

Uzique wrote:

cybargs, the thing is with stuxnet... is that it can fuck pretty much anyone. if the israelis used stuxnet in the west it would still fuck us as hard. stuxnet represents a frightening new level of electronic/cyber-warfare that has opened a whole potential can of worms for world security. i wouldn't say being badly affected by a brand new, incredibly intricate form of computer warfare means that iran are a bunch of backwards goat-herders. you could use the same thing on a power station in the UK and we'd be fucked, too.
No. Stuxnet was built to fuck with one thing: Iranian-spec Siemens centrifuges. If it weren't the places where it showed up outside of Iran would've been fucked up, too.
no shit, dumbie. but it's the technology and its potential that is frightening. infecting low level UNIX machines that are built without any operating system and are only used as automation. the fact that hacking/viruses can infect technology at that root level means that now, theoretically at least, everything from power-plants to dams to water cleaning facilities can be industrially sabotaged.
No kidding. Industrial control systems (as opposed to just SCADA systems) are remarkably vulnerable to this shit--google Illinoiswater treatment plant and you should get a nice "how you doin'". It's not potential. It's real. You connect up these legacy systems to the internet for ease of admin and you basically open them up to all kinds of nastiness. The have to have all kinds of ports open, don't work well with IDS/IPS, and often break when you patch the on which they run.

But those are characteristics generic to control systems. Your comment was specific to the Stuxnet capability...and was wrong. Dumbie.
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FEOS
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Cybargs wrote:

FEOS wrote:

Macbeth wrote:

There are news stories about DoD computers getting comprised every few months. Hell, in the early days random hackers were able to do it pretty famously.

It is just like every other means of causing damage- a matter of will power.
Those are unclassified networks, attached to the internet. You're comparing apples and armchairs.
China's been trying to hack into DoD on a daily basis.
See comment you replied to.


Uzique wrote:

FEOS wrote:

Macbeth wrote:

There are news stories about DoD computers getting comprised every few months. Hell, in the early days random hackers were able to do it pretty famously.

It is just like every other means of causing damage- a matter of will power.
Those are unclassified networks, attached to the internet. You're comparing apples and armchairs.
also this isn't my opinion, this is coming from a tech essay that i read somewhere in a proper academic journal. if i remember it i'll be sure to dig it up. but i am not conjecturing or speculating here (i don't know anything about computer security so why would i?)
Again. See comment you replied to.
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FEOS
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Cybargs wrote:

Cheeky_Ninja06 wrote:

If you were that serious about reverse engineering it, I would imagine you would keep it secret / hidden, develop something awesome from it then claim you came up with it all by yourself?
just like China's J-20 had "nothing to do with F117 stealth tech" lol.
More like F22 stealth tech.
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Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
FEOS
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RAIMIUS wrote:

M.O.A.B wrote:

FatherTed wrote:


flying wings are pretty unstable lol. and regardless, even in a glide (still uncontrolled) it's going to be going pretty fucking fast when it hits the ground. even at a shallow angle, i'd imagine it'd take some obvious damage
Especially given how mountainous Iran is.

The one in the OP resembles an aircraft before it leaves the factory, where its still got the primer on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byS2UcA1QKk
That thing is in an steady-state spin.  You don't get there unless you enter a stall while uncoordinated.
Internet rumor has it that some modern UAVs are programmed to do things like orbit or autoland when they go lost comm.  I don't know how accurate that is, or which systems it would be installed on, but it seems reasonable to me.
They are programmed to return to their base and land when they go lost comm. Not find a nice airfield in adversary space and put down nice and easy. Alternately, they go into an orbit, trying to reacquire the signal until they run out of fuel and auger into the ground. In either case, it wouldn't end up in one piece, smaller than actual size, with a different paint job, on bad guy TV.
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coke
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FEOS wrote:

Uzique wrote:

FEOS wrote:


No. Stuxnet was built to fuck with one thing: Iranian-spec Siemens centrifuges. If it weren't the places where it showed up outside of Iran would've been fucked up, too.
no shit, dumbie. but it's the technology and its potential that is frightening. infecting low level UNIX machines that are built without any operating system and are only used as automation. the fact that hacking/viruses can infect technology at that root level means that now, theoretically at least, everything from power-plants to dams to water cleaning facilities can be industrially sabotaged.
No kidding. Industrial control systems (as opposed to just SCADA systems) are remarkably vulnerable to this shit--google Illinoiswater treatment plant and you should get a nice "how you doin'". It's not potential. It's real. You connect up these legacy systems to the internet for ease of admin and you basically open them up to all kinds of nastiness. The have to have all kinds of ports open, don't work well with IDS/IPS, and often break when you patch the on which they run.

But those are characteristics generic to control systems. Your comment was specific to the Stuxnet capability...and was wrong. Dumbie.
Yes but in the article that Uzique mentioned he read and that I have read, it says that stuxnet can easily be adapted to fuck with all sorts of shit.
FEOS
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coke wrote:

FEOS wrote:

Uzique wrote:


no shit, dumbie. but it's the technology and its potential that is frightening. infecting low level UNIX machines that are built without any operating system and are only used as automation. the fact that hacking/viruses can infect technology at that root level means that now, theoretically at least, everything from power-plants to dams to water cleaning facilities can be industrially sabotaged.
No kidding. Industrial control systems (as opposed to just SCADA systems) are remarkably vulnerable to this shit--google Illinoiswater treatment plant and you should get a nice "how you doin'". It's not potential. It's real. You connect up these legacy systems to the internet for ease of admin and you basically open them up to all kinds of nastiness. The have to have all kinds of ports open, don't work well with IDS/IPS, and often break when you patch the on which they run.

But those are characteristics generic to control systems. Your comment was specific to the Stuxnet capability...and was wrong. Dumbie.
Yes but in the article that Uzique mentioned he read and that I have read, it says that stuxnet can easily be adapted to fuck with all sorts of shit.
Of course. If it's reverse engineered and tweaked for another, very specific, ICS implementation elsewhere...it will impact that specific instantiation of that system. But then it wouldn't be Stuxnet any longer. It would be some derivative thereof. Just another ICS hack in the wild.

What was so ingenious about Stuxnet wasn't what it did, it's what it didn't do: it didn't effect anything else it infected. It was very specific, very targeted, almost self-aware (inb4skynetreference). I'm not so sure that aspect of it can be so "easily adapted" .
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FEOS wrote:

coke wrote:

FEOS wrote:


No kidding. Industrial control systems (as opposed to just SCADA systems) are remarkably vulnerable to this shit--google Illinoiswater treatment plant and you should get a nice "how you doin'". It's not potential. It's real. You connect up these legacy systems to the internet for ease of admin and you basically open them up to all kinds of nastiness. The have to have all kinds of ports open, don't work well with IDS/IPS, and often break when you patch the on which they run.

But those are characteristics generic to control systems. Your comment was specific to the Stuxnet capability...and was wrong. Dumbie.
Yes but in the article that Uzique mentioned he read and that I have read, it says that stuxnet can easily be adapted to fuck with all sorts of shit.
Of course. If it's reverse engineered and tweaked for another, very specific, ICS implementation elsewhere...it will impact that specific instantiation of that system. But then it wouldn't be Stuxnet any longer. It would be some derivative thereof. Just another ICS hack in the wild.

What was so ingenious about Stuxnet wasn't what it did, it's what it didn't do: it didn't effect anything else it infected. It was very specific, very targeted, almost self-aware (inb4skynetreference). I'm not so sure that aspect of it can be so "easily adapted" .
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FEOS wrote:

Cybargs wrote:

Cheeky_Ninja06 wrote:

If you were that serious about reverse engineering it, I would imagine you would keep it secret / hidden, develop something awesome from it then claim you came up with it all by yourself?
just like China's J-20 had "nothing to do with F117 stealth tech" lol.
More like F22 stealth tech.
wot
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FEOS
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Shocking wrote:

FEOS wrote:

Cybargs wrote:


just like China's J-20 had "nothing to do with F117 stealth tech" lol.
More like F22 stealth tech.
wot
Look at the two jets side by side. The J20 bears a more than passing resemblance to the F22.
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FEOS wrote:

Shocking wrote:

FEOS wrote:


More like F22 stealth tech.
wot
Look at the two jets side by side. The J20 bears a more than passing resemblance to the F22.
How'd they get their hands on that tech? I figured they were just trying to imitate the exterior off of pics
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FEOS
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Shocking wrote:

FEOS wrote:

Shocking wrote:


wot
Look at the two jets side by side. The J20 bears a more than passing resemblance to the F22.
How'd they get their hands on that tech? I figured they were just trying to imitate the exterior off of pics
I'm sure that's a large part if it. They likely don't have the RAM tech down. It's not like the stealth tech is über-secret...it is all derived from a Russian mathematician, after all.
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Shocking
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FEOS wrote:

Shocking wrote:

FEOS wrote:


Look at the two jets side by side. The J20 bears a more than passing resemblance to the F22.
How'd they get their hands on that tech? I figured they were just trying to imitate the exterior off of pics
I'm sure that's a large part if it. They likely don't have the RAM tech down. It's not like the stealth tech is über-secret...it is all derived from a Russian mathematician, after all.
They'll figure it out sooner or later anyway, but I suppose the F-22 is going to be the top fighter till well in the 2020s. It's impressive how far ahead you guys are in aviation tech. I reckon it's a bit worrisome that there's so few of them though, quality is one thing but if that means you can't really afford to lose them that poses a problem.
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Shocking wrote:

FEOS wrote:

Shocking wrote:


How'd they get their hands on that tech? I figured they were just trying to imitate the exterior off of pics
I'm sure that's a large part if it. They likely don't have the RAM tech down. It's not like the stealth tech is über-secret...it is all derived from a Russian mathematician, after all.
They'll figure it out sooner or later anyway, but I suppose the F-22 is going to be the top fighter till well in the 2020s. It's impressive how far ahead you guys are in aviation tech. I reckon it's a bit worrisome that there's so few of them though, quality is one thing but if that means you can't really afford to lose them that poses a problem.
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Shocking
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Jay wrote:

Shocking wrote:

FEOS wrote:


I'm sure that's a large part if it. They likely don't have the RAM tech down. It's not like the stealth tech is über-secret...it is all derived from a Russian mathematician, after all.
They'll figure it out sooner or later anyway, but I suppose the F-22 is going to be the top fighter till well in the 2020s. It's impressive how far ahead you guys are in aviation tech. I reckon it's a bit worrisome that there's so few of them though, quality is one thing but if that means you can't really afford to lose them that poses a problem.
Where have you been?
My landlord is being a dick and cut off my internet so I have to bounce back and forth between uni library / mums house to do school work mostly, don't get to check in here often now.
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RAIMIUS
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FEOS wrote:

RAIMIUS wrote:

Internet rumor has it that some modern UAVs are programmed to do things like orbit or autoland when they go lost comm.  I don't know how accurate that is, or which systems it would be installed on, but it seems reasonable to me.
They are programmed to return to their base and land when they go lost comm. Not find a nice airfield in adversary space and put down nice and easy. Alternately, they go into an orbit, trying to reacquire the signal until they run out of fuel and auger into the ground.
Well, yeah, that's the plan...
Uzique
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-Sh1fty- wrote:

No you shut up

The U.S. has handed Iran vital military information and technology on a silver platter. Common sense dictates you do whatever you can to get that kind of thing away from your enemy that could use it later against you or develop something better from your work.
lol

fucking mong

stick to playing war simulation games and stop thinking about geopolitics
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-Sh1fty- wrote:

No you shut up

The U.S. has handed Iran vital military information and technology on a silver platter. Common sense dictates you do whatever you can to get that kind of thing away from your enemy that could use it later against you or develop something better from your work.
Relax.

The really cool shit doesn't get put in an oversized R/C toy and flown into Badguyistan.

No, the really cool shit stays up in orbit, on satellites or drone-shuttles (X-37 is it?).

For most of the stuff I'm guessing is on a drone, it's not the end item that's a State Secret - it's the manufacturing process used to make it.

Really clear optics? Yeah - Da Vinci would've understood them.  Tricky part is how to make them.
Ditto with circuitry, radar absorbent materials, etc.

As another example;
Copy the F-117 bomber shape and airfoil profile - fine.
Without the aerodynamic how and why of what it takes to make an unstable shape fly, you're not getting off the ground.

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