Iran threatens Nvidia, Apple and other 18 tech companies

28 pointsposted 5 hours ago
by johnbarron
(cnbc.com)

19 Comments

bumblehean

2 hours ago

AWS me-south-1 got hit (again) earlier today.

johnbarron

5 hours ago

"...Attacks on those companies would begin from 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1, Tehran time (12:30 p.m. EDT), the IRGC said in a post on Telegram translated by Google, warning employees at those companies to leave workplaces immediately to protect their lives...

The list of companies also featured Cisco, HP, Intel, Oracle, IBM, Dell, Palantir, JP Morgan, Tesla, GE, Spire Solutions, Boeing and UAE-based AI company G42. ..."

3abiton

3 hours ago

There is a possibility the IRGC are trolling, given it's April's Fool today.

kridsdale1

3 hours ago

I guess this is supposed to be funny but I wouldn’t take that chance.

crvdgc

2 hours ago

Sovereign AI adds another layer of meaning now that sovereignties are at war.

sva_

3 hours ago

So they mean to strike those companies with a presence in the middle east? Surely they don't think they can hit US mainland?

zardo

an hour ago

Yes, they certainly mean they will attack those companies facilities in the region.

sp3ktrum

3 hours ago

Here's what I don't understand, why doesn't the US simply cut their connections to the world. It's quite easy to find fiber optic locations...cut them.

Instead of flinging bombs and missiles, take out their knees with some cable cutters.

7952

an hour ago

Surely they would have terrestrial connections to the North. And this could encourage Iran to cut all the other fibre links that run through the region.

tonyedgecombe

3 hours ago

Because they have already done that themselves.

zrn900

3 hours ago

> Here's what I don't understand, why doesn't the US simply cut their connections to the world. It's quite easy to find fiber optic locations...cut them.

Iran cut it itself. Its running its own domestic internet where everything domestic works. All domestic banks, apps.

Literal arrogance to think that the US owns the world.

owlcompliance

32 minutes ago

Please pull over sir - weeee ooooo weeee ooo.

You are being cited for excessive assumptions. OP did not say or infer the US owns the world. You don't have to "own" the world to attempt cutting a country off from those connections.

tomalbrc

20 minutes ago

Dipshit alert - weeee ooooo weeee ooo. > why doesn't the US simply cut their connections to the world

This does sound exactly as arrogant as it is.

sp3ktrum

an hour ago

Not sure how that determines "Literal arrogance...". My assumption, perhaps naive, is that Iran had connections to the outside world from which the hacking was taking place.

Are the Iranian hackers not within Iran?

nomel

44 minutes ago

You can buy access to compromised computers anywhere in the world. This would require cutting off any path to anywhere in the world, since the person performing the attacks can also be anywhere in the world.

The US isolating itself from the rest of the world isn't financially feasible.

throwawayqqq11

2 hours ago

Iran is sanctioned for so long now, they had no other choice than to become as independent as possible.

Cutting communications hinders iran less then outsiders trying to spark a revolution. I think thats also a reason why russia and other autocratic nations have internet kill switches too.

> litteral arrogance

True.

neonstatic

2 hours ago

> I think thats also a reason why russia and other autocratic nations have internet kill switches too.

They have that for the same reason they always have a military, even if it's 100 years behind anyone else's - to keep the populace in check. A T-55 might be completely obsolete against a cheap FPV drone, but it's still a formidable weapon against a crowd of unarmed people.

wil421

an hour ago

How did OP imply anything? He asked why one of the parties in the conflict don’t cut cables.