‘Legitimate targets’: Iran issues warning to US tech firms including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia – The Times of India
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Congratulations, you wanted to be part of the military industrial complex and now you are a part of the military industrial complex.
Well done to Trump and his team for royally mucking this one up.
Iran has nothing to lose now and they’ll just keep expanding the target list as they deem fit, likely soon even saying any company that does business with a US firm is now a target.
Who could’ve seen this coming?!
I would have more sympathy for the giant tech companies if their goals weren’t to make everything worse for everybody
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Please don’t target any outsourcers that are within missile reach of Iran. That would be devastating to the investor class of the US.
I see, they wanted to pressure those that ~~bribe~~ support Trump instead of jumping through hoops.
Oh nooo…. Not the tech firms ruining our lives.
Tech giants are enemies of every human.
But they are in the cloud!
This is how “big tech” steps into the war game without a veil. Get ready for aI war bots as a response
Funny how people in here thinking Iran fucking with these companies won’t have impact on their lives and others while the companies themselves will continue on. Stryker a medical device form just got hit and has seemed to have lost data and logon information.
They already got Stryker
Please add Palentir to that list.
Could they maybe target AI centers and spare the RAM producers? Maybe? Mr. Ajatollah?
Fuck around and find out
Would be interesting if this black swan event turned into a catalyst for return to remote work. RTRW or RTWFH. Then, just like with everything else, other companies would follow suit.
Iran, please, I beg you, RAM is already too expensive, don’t make them have to buy more.
Anthropic smartly not on that list…
What a convenient excuse to a pump and dump ai bubble to burst. It wasn’t us billionaires that ruined the fake economy it was all iran!
I can see it already. Literally every single thing they say is bs lately. And its so obvious because of their track record. Nothing anyone says anymore is the truth its so wild
Tech companies spent years saying they’re “just platforms.” Turns out when your infrastructure powers governments, militaries, and half the planet’s digital backbone, you’re not just a platform anymore — you’re part of geopolitics whether you like it or not.
Choosing Microsoft over meta is certainly a choice
You’re saying there a chance AWS AND Outlook might go down again? Oh no… please don’t do it on a workday. I won’t be able to increase shareholder value for a few days!
wtf is that web design, bro. illegible on desktop
I’m sure Sam Altman is really happy he and OpenAI secured that deal with Pentagon now 🤭
Good reason to reverse their RTO decisions
Starters: I do not wish anyone to die or for property to be damaged. War is not a joke.
I don’t get this press release from Iran. I understand they are trying to shake the markets and create some chaos. I get the rationale behind that: Go for the digital economy as you try to shake the physical. What I don’t get is that these are regional offices and facilities; they are not the major hubs. Even the Iranian military understands that at best they could damage a local network node, but that there’s redundancy to carry the load. Hitting the undersea cables might be useful, perhaps a satellite ground station, but aside from that, this is at best a weak attack vector to shake the US Stock market. If they think it’s a psychological attack, it really isn’t. Lives are already being lost, and people are on Reddit making callous jokes, and most others won’t even understand the point of attacking these companies except for some vague association with the name.
I guess Iran’s leadership feels they have to do something since so far they haven’t been extremely effective.
Big rich tech could use a good humbling.
Stryker got hit today
Cutting out the middle man I guess. Go right for the billionaire tech overlords.
Seems perfectly fair to me
They can get cover in the new ballroom….
Finally going after the oligarchy. Might just end the war
Smart. Puts pressure on the Politicians to end the war.
All the donor’s will run to Trump to end it if their ability to generate profits is hindered due to loss of infrastructure.
Is Iran taking requests? I’ve got some I’d like to add to the list. Palentir, openAI, pretty much all storage manufactures (shouldn’t have messed with my pc build). Anybody else wanna add to the list?
Look as much as I’d like to see the corporate scourge of the earth eat shit, I fail to see how Iran out of all countries can target them.
I’m worried for all the people working in offices in the countries around Iran tho, something the companies probably aren’t.
I’m really struggling…who’s the enemy?
This war is to make billionaires richer so those targets make sense. Hit them in the bottom line and they will push to stop it hopefully. When their precious billions are at risk they might actually pay attention.
It’s fucking crazy to me that it’s not out of the question that Iran could conduct a terror attack on an AI data center in the US and there could potentially be very little complaint from Americans.
How do we break the cycle of greed that is just ruining this planet for humanity?
I feel genuinely awful for my coworkers who are now targets in a war they didn’t ask for. But for the companies, fuck em. Every name on that list has supported the current administration. Losing money is the only thing that might motivate them to change.
Don’t forget the propaganda machine known as Meta. They also dabble in war.
No, Iran, stop, not Microsoft. I need to appear online in Teams. How will my employer gaslight me with phishing campaigns if Exchange Online can’t fill my outlook inbox with spam?
What will we do if my OneDrive isn’t synced to the cloud and I only have local storage? That is barbaric.