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OT: American Politics

MindzEye said:

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Read the last bullet....jesus titty fucking christ what is going on down there?
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Serious question: Even in a best-case scenario, there's no avoiding that foreign governments will have access to many of the nation's secrets and classified information. They probably always had spies embedded high up in the government already. I'll bet they have a clone of Trump's phone, access to Tulsi Gabbard's email, plus a lot of these people are incompetent, the FBI will be run by grifters, etc.

What is the end result of all this? How bad can it get in terms of national security? Remember, best case scenario here.
 
axlsalinger said:
Serious question: Even in a best-case scenario, there's no avoiding that foreign governments will have access to many of the nation's secrets and classified information. They probably always had spies embedded high up in the government already. I'll bet they have a clone of Trump's phone, access to Tulsi Gabbard's email, plus a lot of these people are incompetent, the FBI will be run by grifters, etc.

What is the end result of all this? How bad can it get in terms of national security? Remember, best case scenario here.
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Honestly, don't even know. Hard to know what the worst case scenario is when we don't know what's in there to be known...without knowing worst case, hard to know what best case looks like in comparison.

Complete, back of the napkin guess...foreign nations having classified intel on how 5 eyes gathers intel, well that sounds pretty fucking bad but is almost 100% likely. Specs on US and formerly allied nations tech assets (satelites, military kit, etc). Probably learn a bunch of stuff about US gov data security, what the US knows about allied nations (a lot), etc.

So yeah, this is such a wildly broad attack surface that it's really hard to even guess on much specific stuff, what they want to know specifically, the damage they could do with it. Broadly though, I think it takes whatever edges US allies have over countries we're not friendly with (Russia, Iran, NK, even China) and closes some of those gaps. For example, something like Stuxnet. If this type of security breach had occurred prior to Stuxnet, the Iranians would have been able to patch their vulnerabilities, create counter measures and start working on their own versions of it if there were things in stuxnet's architecture that they could have learned from (there was).
 
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