• DigitalNeighbor@lemmy.world
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    I’m pretty sure that billion dollar army tech is not connected to a civilian Internet network. I find the idea of a F-35 asking you for the wifi password pretty funny.

    Now, if you want to disrupt the Internet connection of the army of a sovereign nation, good luck. This whole aspect of the article is not very credible.

    On the other hand, If the U.S. decides to render the F-35s unusable by forcing those running the update server to stop service or by blocking all incoming communication to those update servers, it’s going to be a terrible precedent. I can only see that happening in some very dire scenarios. Sabotaging military tech of an allied nation is not something you do without expecting consequences.

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      Do you think it would be more difficult to block a military network accessing the Lockheed servers?

      The stupidity and incompetence among decision makers and product managers is not to be underestimated. Neither is the impulsiveness of Trump.

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      You seem to think that the people making these decisions currently stop to think about consequences. I could totally see Drumpf saying how we got em too cheap and that he would disable them until we pay our due or something

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        Even Trump had to reconsider his outrageous tariffs. I guess his assistants managed to explain disastrous it would be to start a trade war with everyone.