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Destructive Hacks Strike Saudi Arabia, Posing Challenge to Trump (bloomberg.com)
State-sponsored hackers have conducted a series of destructive attacks on Saudi Arabia over the last two weeks, erasing data and wreaking havoc in the computer banks of the agency running the country's airports and hitting five additional targets, according to two people familiar with an investigation into the breach. From a report on Bloomberg: Saudi Arabia said after inquiries from Bloomberg News that "several" government agencies were targeted in attacks that came from outside the kingdom, according to state media. Although a probe by Saudi authorities is still in its early stages, the people said digital evidence suggests the attacks emanated from Iran. That could present President-elect Donald Trump with a major national security challenge as he steps into the Oval Office. The use of offensive cyber weapons by a nation is relatively rare and the scale of the latest attacks could trigger a tit-for-tat cyber war in a region where capabilities have mushroomed ever since an attack on Saudi Aramco in 2012.
the US gets %97 of all it's oil from saudi arabia that's why
saudi arabia can shut down the us economy with the flick of a switch it happened under jimmy carter the us was completely paralized gas lines for miles
More like 8%
The democrats love the Saudi's as they donate millions every year to them especially to the Clinton foundation. Trump on the other hand doesn't need the money so if the Saudi dictatorship have been financing terrorism in Syria in direct conflict with Russia then that's their own fault. Also the USA isn't as dependent on the Saudi's any more for their energy needs so I can't see why the USA should throw another few billion at the "waste of time" islamic infighting in the middle east.
So we're back to the "Obama is really a Muslim..."
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
No, nuance, as in that thing that allowed Nixon and Kissinger to sort out that there isn't just one big monolithic thing called "Communists". Nuance, whereby Churchill happily made common cause with Stalin, despite knowing that Stalin was one of the vilest mass murderers in history (the British government knew about the Katyn Massacre, for instance).
I realize we've entered an age where ignorance is worn proudly, but never have I seen it in more evidence than here, where people who actually spend more than fifteen seconds thinking about the complexities of the real world are regarded as inferior to people whose whole world view is just one big knee jerk response.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.