U.S. cybersecurity agency warns of 'grave' threat from hack

Re:U.S. cybersecurity agency warns of 'grave' threat from hack by justinzollars on Thursday December 17, 2020 @02:53PM (#25459592)

Russia is getting one heck of bang for its buck. Its a declining regional power with a GDP the size of Texas [1,2] who our media blames all of our problems on. Imagine if a comparable adversary decided to mess with the United States.

[1] https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Russia/Uni...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories...

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Re:U.S. cybersecurity agency warns of 'grave' threat from hack by sebmellen on Thursday December 17, 2020 @03:05PM (#25459697)

A better (and more accurate) comparison is that Russia has a lower GDP than Italy: https://countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/russia/italy.

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Re:U.S. cybersecurity agency warns of 'grave' threat from hack by kalimoxto on Thursday December 17, 2020 @03:02PM (#25459669)

Giving you the benefit of the doubt: you've conflated the Russian yearly budget with Maryland's GDP. Russian GDP of 2 Trillion would be the second in the US, between California and Texas

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Re:U.S. cybersecurity agency warns of 'grave' threat from hack by justinzollars on Thursday December 17, 2020 @03:19PM (#25459851)

corrected. thx

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Re:U.S. cybersecurity agency warns of 'grave' threat from hack by disown on Thursday December 17, 2020 @05:49PM (#25461564)

> Its a declining regional power

It's a declining global power, but a rising regional power. It's nowhere what it was in the soviet days, but it certainly has been growing since the post 90s collapse.

> with a GDP the size of Texas [1,2]

That's only on a nominal basis, but on a PPP basis, they are the 6th largest economy in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)

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Re:U.S. cybersecurity agency warns of 'grave' threat from hack by justinzollars on Thursday December 17, 2020 @11:12PM (#25463774)

> but a rising regional power.

It's not rising in any sense.

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Re:U.S. cybersecurity agency warns of 'grave' threat from hack by pengaru on Friday December 18, 2020 @03:40AM (#25465098)

Crimea?

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Re:U.S. cybersecurity agency warns of 'grave' threat from hack by justinzollars on Saturday December 19, 2020 @12:34PM (#25479183)

That example is like the United States losing all of California, but taking back its Navy base in San Diego.

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