"But the Pentagon assumed local adversaries wouldn't know how to exploit it, the officials said."
Right. Because people in third-world countries are clearly far too backwards and ignorant to understand anything involving computers or technology.
Right. Because people in third-world countries are clearly far too backwards and ignorant to understand anything involving computers or technology.
Unlike in the past, nowadays it is relatively easy to gain access to technical knowledge. If someone has access to the web and knows enough English they are basically at the same distance from information (=1) as someone in a developed world. All it takes is a lot of time and persistence.
So there might be third-world countries but there are no third world people.
Still, incredibly stupid nonetheless.