Singapore will disconnect entire civil service from the internet

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@Grey_Devil

It definitely wouldn’t work, if a foreign power really wanted to target their systems that happens to be airgapped you just shift your tactics accordingly. You do spearhead attacks on specific individuals, and then get them to unsuspectingly infiltrate the system for you.

That’s just saying “security is impossible, so don’t bother.” Any system in the world can be compromised; the goal is to make it as difficult as possible.

@Grey_Devil

There are other techniques for infiltrating/hacking airgapped computers, like listening to the harddrive, or getting computers to communicate via inaudible frequencies on their speakers/mics, and there’s others that escape my mind.

All of those rely on compromising the target machine to get around the air gap, which requires you to compromise the target machine, which is hard because of the air gap. So it’s functioning as intended, in that regard.