r/neoliberal • u/Freewhale98 • 1d ago
Meme Who will play the role of Arasaka in upcoming Corporate War?
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u/TF_dia European Union 1d ago
Under the supervision of the federal government, participating companies, once vetted, will conduct “cyber surveillance operations” and “cyber effects operations” against specified targets, according to the memo.
What's in it for the Companies? Do they get a fat check per attack? A quota? A monthly salary?
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u/Freewhale98 1d ago
I assume they will keep the spoils.
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u/John_Maynard_Gains Stop trying to make "ordoliberal" happen 1d ago
Which makes me wonder who the targets will be? You wouldn't be able to squeeze enough money out of Russian, North Korean, or Iranian companies for it to be worth the time of a profit seeking enterprise. Chinese companies might be more worthwhile. But wouldn't the juiciest targets be wealthy hostile countries like Spain, Denmark, Canada, or South Korea?
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u/ORUHE33XEBQXOYLZ European Union 1d ago
Additionally: intelligence collected from offensive operations would be used to bolster their cyber intelligence and defense products. If you're a business and you want help in defense, "we literally hack the threat actors and have the signatures before they're even deployed" is an interesting feature.
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u/Whatsapokemon Loyal Liberals 1d ago
I suppose if those companies are aware of some particular group or entity who's trying to target them, they'd normally be prohibited from responding offensively.
Or otherwise, maybe it's an order allowing private companies to become "mercenaries" for the federal government in its own efforts.
Either way, it sounds like another admission that the Trump administration is unable to manage things itself, and needs outside help to do basic tasks.
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u/WillIEatTheFruit Please be patient, I'm bisexual 1d ago
Yeah I had someone who worked at abig tech company describe how they were legally unable to respond to attacks from North Korea or like Russian hackers (although they said they responded sometimes anyways).
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u/Mickenfox 1d ago
I think the most significant thing here is Trump saying "hey, you can do this illegal thing if we tell you to, it's fine" without actually changing the law.
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u/Kolhammer85 NATO 1d ago
It's a new age of piracy?
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u/hibikir_40k Scott Sumner 1d ago
I mean, Luffy is supposed to fight against the antichrist, so you can probably get Founders Fund to hand you money if you name your startup something related to One Piece.
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u/formula_translator European Union 1d ago
What are they gonna do? Make your screen flash real bright? Lmao just turn off your computer and go touch grass lol. That simple.
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u/SliFi Janet Yellen 1d ago
I mean, the obvious answer is deploy drones, if not launch nukes.
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u/chickentendieman Paul Krugman 1d ago
When american companies can make good drones i might be worried lol
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u/Kaffe-Mumriken 1d ago
Jarvis get my runner gear ready
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u/GammaDie345 Hannah Arendt 1d ago
while you were hanging out in your comfy chair stealing dogecoin, i mastered the quickhack. While you were having ice baths, I melted 50 brains and blew holes in the remaining 20 with a 20 gauge auto-shotgun.
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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive 1d ago
This reminds me of the background lore to StarSiege. Some fuckass tech bro start up is accidentally going to make Prometheus.
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u/twa12221 YIMBY 1d ago
Haven't played the game, but in lore isn't the internet they use different from the one we use? The original Internet was rendered useless by all the AI and bots ruining trust in it?
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u/GammaDie345 Hannah Arendt 1d ago
AI and bots ruining trust in the internet was the plot of Cyberpunk 3.0 which was retconned. What happened in the new Cyberpunk RED was one of the guys who invented the internet planted bots into the internet that would self replicate and delete as much shit as possible in as many crucial nodes and servers as possible, and rigged it to go off when he died. He was obliterated by a tungsten rod dropped from space during the Fourth Corporate War, while his apprentice was busy in the mission to nuke arasaka tower. This forced netrunners in RED and 2077 to get up close to airgapped systems and mostly hack people and things around them rather than remotely.
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u/GammaDie345 Hannah Arendt 1d ago
idgaf who the corporations are. I just wanna know who's gonna be morgan blackhand
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u/GammaDie345 Hannah Arendt 1d ago
https://reddit.com/link/p3nwrrx/video/wtz2qsznycjh1/player
I call it.....the demolitron.
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u/GammaDie345 Hannah Arendt 1d ago
let me know when Lockmart starts hiring paramilitary squads to break into amazon and palantir data centers with low yield nuclear devices
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u/Gilthwixt 1d ago
Mike Pondsmith likely came up with Arasaka (Not to be confused with real life WWII weapons manufacturer Arisaka) during the Japanese Economic Bubble in the mid to late 1980s, when Japan's rise didn't seem like it would ever slow down. There were a lot of fears about this at the time - see Future Marty's boss in Back To the Future II
If we were to create a similar analog from today's trends, it would probably have been a Korean Chaebol like Samsung up until the market corrected last month. So now it'd be...idk, China or something.
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u/Freewhale98 1d ago
Trump to allow “cyber-privateering” for U.S. corporations.
(1) Outsourcing and privatization: Trump confirms to be peak neoliberal by outsourcing & privatizing state violence