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Re:U.S. tightens export controls on items used in surveillan... by jay3ss on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @10:13PM (#28939485)
> At one point we came relatively close to using a nuke to deal with a hacking attempt

Do you have a source on this? Sounds like an interesting read

Re:U.S. tightens export controls on items used in surveillan... by Retric on Thursday October 21, 2021 @09:09AM (#28943835)
Unfortunately it was a first hand account, solar sunrise 1998 was the event but many of the details aren’t exactly public. The critical bits where it was being routed through a compromised machine in Baghdad, many DoD systems where running email alongside more mission critical applications, and the timing was the lead up to the first Iraq war.