mike_d

They are. Most critical infrastructure providers worldwide have in house or contract red teams. Every western government has an agency dedicated to cyber defense and they all have red team programs.

See, before the cloud, you used to deploy your code to actual physical servers. If your site became really popular you needed more than one server to run it.

Before commercial and open source load balancers became a thing we literally used HTTP redirects to distribute load. You might visit www.example.com and get redirected to www13.example.com, which was an actual box in a datacenter.

I don't think the internet would exist today if websites just randomly fell over once the number of simultaneous users exceeded the capacity of a single server.

I can tell you from first hand experience that moving high value items isn't as exciting as you'd think.

ULDs are the standardized shipping containers of the sky. You can rent ones that have an inner armored layer and tamper evident seals. They fly as commercial cargo, usually on the flag carrier airline if its a government load. No special rituals or armed guards. Shipments are broken up so the loss of a single aircraft is at most $5 or $10 million.

There are some highly specialized aircraft that transport full loads but they tend to be closer to the supply side, moving bulk gold or diamonds from remote mines for processing.

Cash is the interesting exception (most non-US currency is produced by commercial printers) where a country will send its military to go pick up one big shipment.

In the past my attempts to work on crypto related problems have been met with needing the higher tier of "offensive" access.

"Apple claims that OpenAI and two former Apple employees, including OpenAI’s now chief hardware officer Tang Tan, stole trade secrets including confidential product designs and proprietary information about its manufacturing processes."

Nobody. Going back to 1989 every AOL account had a screen name that was used as your login and your identity. Being an employee was just a flag on your account in the database.

In 1993 AOL launched its internet gateway that accepted [email protected] and put it in your AOL Mail box. You could tell that someone was an AOL employee because a banner (I think it was) appeared at the top of the message telling you.

Some of the network engineering folks had real aol.net addresses, but I don't know how that was handled internally. I also think the Netscape folks eventually made enough of a stink to keep their previous email address too.

Microsoft is going to be charging you per hour to play GTA 6.

The problem is they can't fit any frontier level open models.

In this case Apple's legal department had identified the serials and IMEIs as PII.

This is why the case is in civil court and not criminal (because Apple didn't violate any "laws" as you claim). It is a contract dispute.

Guardrails are not a safety measure, they are a pay-to-play scheme that allows the people with deep pockets to have access to offensive and defensive capabilities first.

The attempted coup brought out a lot of pro Mossadeq protestors. It wasn't until the 19th when clerics organized anti Mossadeq protestors that it took hold.

Might be worth flagging to Wikipedia editors for a review.