16 hours ago16 hr 2 hours ago, Patong2021 said:Ok, so a company failed to have effective cyber protection and its employees failed to practice cyber security basics. What's your point? That companies are still not managing their cyber risks?Despite COVID-19, healthcare supply chains remain incredibly vulnerable. In the context of a thread on events arising from the war/SMO in the Persian Gulf, it is fairly obvious to most, but not you, that this is an example assymetric warfare, which has had direct impact not just on company bottom lives, but whether people live or die. This is not due to employee fault but due to a third party. An industry wide CISA has now been issued. Stryker had thought they had an effective BYOD policy. They are deeply vertically integrated.Whether or not you think it was the fault of a Stryker employee (people like you always blame the victim), the issue is children in the US have now failed to receive life preserving treatment in relation to neurological conditions. Worldwide, people are now facing delays in receiving replacement hip joints. Those with hip fractures will now typically face significantly worsened outcomes and trncated life spans. If you are an 80 year old lying in a hospital bed with double hip fractures following a fall, a delay doesn't just mean an inconvenience. It means there is increased risk of sepsis and death. It means also increased risk of discharge to a nursing home, rather than to their own home. Delays in neurovascular surgery mean more people will die as a result of a brain aneurysm.Stryker is one of the top 5 medical device companies. Stryker has a complex global manufacturing footprint, not dissimilar to companies like Medtronic. Impacts on Stryker will certainly affect healthcare in tier 4 countries like Thailand. Its going to take months for Stryker to repair their supply chain. As they are also an OEM to some other Top 5s, there will be ripple effect.Further downstream, there might be further consequences to component suppliers, typically much smaller, and with less financial buffer, and possibly failures. Since the product is a medical device, its not trivial for Stryker to switch supplier. Every change to every Class III and many Class II device needs to be signed off by the FDA following a review.Last year, Jaguar Land Rover had 3 months of zero production, after a cyber attack. £1 billion in revenue gone.
16 hours ago16 hr 1 hour ago, beautifulthailand99 said:What in the next few months ? By the time that would ever be done if it was possible it would be years hence.Its a nonsense suggestion. He or she is just <deleted> posting. He or She is basically repeating the mistake of Newt Gingrich who fell for a spoof. He/She has not appreciated the presence of the Hajar Mountains, the highest mountain range on the Arabian penninsularThe construction bill would run to several thousand billion dollars. One day the regime will be no more in Tehran. It might be next year, it might be 10 years, it might be 100 years. Why would anyone use a canal that is constantly blocking due to sand, and falling levels due to evaporation, when there is the Straits. And after all that, the nitwit suggestion doesn't actually solve the original challenge; make shipping invulnerable to interdiction. The canal is still within range of Tehran. A new vulnerability is created, by increasing the power of Oman to block it. Oman has a history of instability. Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said himself is the cousin of Sultan Qaboos who seized power in a coup. For decades, Oman has fought wars against communist and islamist rebels. The canal will destroy people's homes in a region that was the source of the rebellion.
11 hours ago11 hr 5 hours ago, Roadsternut said:Despite COVID-19, healthcare supply chains remain incredibly vulnerable. In the context of a thread on events arising from the war/SMO in the Persian Gulf, it is fairly obvious to most, but not you, that this is an example assymetric warfare, which has had direct impact not just on company bottom lives, but whether people live or die. This is not due to employee fault but due to a third party. An industry wide CISA has now been issued. Stryker had thought they had an effective BYOD policy. They are deeply vertically integrated.Whether or not you think it was the fault of a Stryker employee (people like you always blame the victim), the issue is children in the US have now failed to receive life preserving treatment in relation to neurological conditions. Worldwide, people are now facing delays in receiving replacement hip joints. Those with hip fractures will now typically face significantly worsened outcomes and trncated life spans. If you are an 80 year old lying in a hospital bed with double hip fractures following a fall, a delay doesn't just mean an inconvenience. It means there is increased risk of sepsis and death. It means also increased risk of discharge to a nursing home, rather than to their own home. Delays in neurovascular surgery mean more people will die as a result of a brain aneurysm.Stryker is one of the top 5 medical device companies. Stryker has a complex global manufacturing footprint, not dissimilar to companies like Medtronic. Impacts on Stryker will certainly affect healthcare in tier 4 countries like Thailand. Its going to take months for Stryker to repair their supply chain. As they are also an OEM to some other Top 5s, there will be ripple effect.Further downstream, there might be further consequences to component suppliers, typically much smaller, and with less financial buffer, and possibly failures. Since the product is a medical device, its not trivial for Stryker to switch supplier. Every change to every Class III and many Class II device needs to be signed off by the FDA following a review.Last year, Jaguar Land Rover had 3 months of zero production, after a cyber attack. £1 billion in revenue gone.Cyber crime was occurring long before the cuurrent conflict with Iran. Cyber extortionists from North Korea have been raising much needed FX for their government through ransomware for years. The Iranians have also been implicated.Russians and Chinese gangs are implicated too. All have links and associations with their respective national spy agencies. I am not victim blaming, but the warnings are there. I have quarterly training and am regularly tested by a third party contractor with phishing and suspicious emails. If I don't report. right away I am told that I failed the test and am sent to online training. Alot of comapanies don't do that. In any case,there is no evidence this was a result of the current conflict.
11 hours ago11 hr Sorry, not exactly on topic ... but just stumbled on this blog post about Israel.Any biblical scholars on AN?https://www.reddit.com/r/theology/comments/1jfsnqt/the_modern_state_of_israel_is_not_the_fulfillment/Let’s face it: the modern state of Israel—this secular, colonial entity—is not the fulfillment of biblical prophecy. It’s time to stop pretending it is. The claim that the political state of Israel represents God’s chosen people is a misapplication of Scripture that distorts the very essence of what Israel is supposed to be in God’s plan.
6 hours ago6 hr Ukraine offers Gulf states cut price drone interceptors in exchange for Patriots that are useless against Shahed drones.ITAR will stop that. The US will never consent to Arab Patriots going to Ukraine.
5 hours ago5 hr 31st MEU has arrivedhttps://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/03/28/uss-tripoli-embarked-31st-marine-expeditionary-unit-arrive-in-middle-east/
5 hours ago5 hr UAE stats fir last 24 hours. 20 ballistic missiles in 24 hours suggests Iran isn't running short.
5 hours ago5 hr OK, its Scott Ritter who isn't exactly unbiased. But he's right about the War Crimes Act; the existance of this Act would be one of the reasons its not really necessary for the US to ratify the ICC. The Court exist to proscute individuals in the absence of domestic legislation to prosecute war criminals. Of course its debatable whether the order from Hegseth to effectively Give no Quarter amounts to an order to commit war crimes.
5 hours ago5 hr Energy armageddon by next weekendhttps://www.cbc.ca/news/business/armstrong-oil-strait-of-hormuz-9.7142143?cmp=rssEnergy shipments stopped in their tracks on Feb. 28 when the war began and Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz. But plenty of ships made it out to sea in those final days before the conflict began. The last of them should arrive in Japanese and Korean ports sometime over the next 8-10 days.After that, there's nothing coming.
5 hours ago5 hr I think Iran's Lego Propaganda department is better when they do the songs. This one is a tad "Iran Strong", but they are right about Epstein.
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