strategically positioning latent digital threats that could be activated during a geopolitical conflict
Infrastructure would be an attractive target but you wonder what would happen if, in addition, tens of millions of Apple phones or tens of millions of Samsung phones etc. suddenly became bricks - so that people couldnât even call for help in respect of the infrastructure that just went down and in any case this would be severely disruptive even if no infrastructure went down.
It is true though that it is harder to have a long-term latent threat embedded in a phone when many people chop and change their phones every few years, and likewise manufacturers abandon models after a few years and introduce new models every year. That would leave state actors chasing a rapidly moving target - whereas in infrastructure we may value stability, tried and true and certified software, etc.
I donât really keep up with the news, but Iâm sure the US government is taking this seriously and actively working diligently to protect the country, its citizens and infrastructure from this sort of threat.
(It may depend on the country in question but) It is often not just the government that has to take it seriously but also the myriad private operators, and their supply chains, and their supply chains, âŚ
You could wonder about that or respond to this actual act of war.
Things like that lead me to believe that the ChiComms need âinducementâ, perhaps of the kinetic sort.
How exactly do you mean by respond?
I think the post makes that clear. 
You need to interpret âinducementâ and âkineticâ.
⌠also being discussed here: https://forums.puri.sm/t/malicious-sim-cards-and-servers-found-at-un/29693
It isnât like âMerica should have used a privacy account with puri.sm. If so, they would have been down two days ago. Non-payment of bills an invoice better than a hack!
Oh wait, with a govât shutdown, non-payment may happen. How much doesâ âMurica get charged for the dot gov domain?
Free:
They are putting lives at risk. We eliminate the threat (SIM farms) and engage them like civilized beings. If they donât stop, we stop them, by kinetic means if necessary. By âkineticâ I mean breaking thing and killing people. The good general rule is not to start wars in the first place, but to end them as decisively as possible.
If yesterday was any indicator, perhaps Amazon cloud also forgot to pay their domain bill.
Good luck with that.
Or maybe they got hacked. 
Aww, youâre ruining a perfectly good joke at puri.sm by injecting truth.
Do you remember when Microsoft web site went down because the person responsible for Microsofts domain names forgot to renew the domain name Microsoft.com. That was right around the same time Mozilla went from Netscape 2 - to 3. Internet Explorer went from 2 - 4. The good old days.
I wonder. Is it cheaper to call a failure a âhackâ than admit to technical brain fog?
While the US slowly implodes, other countries are wooing the worldâs thugs over new trade deals.
Maraka isnât the only country being âhackedâ. Countries are always trying to hack other countries.
Thereâs the NSA and SIGINT, 33 Thomas Street, Room 641A, and king of nosy: the PRISM program.
Of course, the US doesnât interfere with elections in other countries, just their own 
and never, ever peek at other countries leaders, down to voters 
Every country is after the same thing - control of other nations.
Too bad, if countries want all that info, why downât they just ask Google for the info?
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Both Amazon and Microsoft will do well, they are both donating to the big, beautiful, ballroom.
Are you saying they moved off Savage Road? No wonder my crypto keys keep coming back âundeliverable, forwarding address expiredâ.
Ouch. You didnât get that memo about the move eh? 
I forgot to do a page count.