Originally posted by Time-ImmemorialSanctions won't do anything to prevent them from getting nukes; N. Korea has been under extreme sanctions for years and still managed to build their own nuclear weapons. Bombing their nuclear sites would have disastrous environmental repercussions not just for Iran but for neighboring countries as well, so unless you're content to basically genocide the entire region that isn't realistic either.
Keep sanctions and bomb any nuclear sites..This isn't rocket science.
The key word was "viable". Your suggestions sound like some shit out of a video game.
Why are we kidding ourselves? This isn't the 90's. These attacks or most of them are likely being done right under the noses of Security Guards too sleepy to remain awake on the job. Most of the hacks are done by people that actually work in the places that are being compromised. The world is not filled to the brim with people capable of hacking quantum encrypted networks... It just isn't.
Unless the people working for our government are illegally downloading music, and watching porn on the job (something monitored and controlled by Network Admins), it would be virtually improbable to hack something as robust as these servers. We've already come to the realization that sanctions will not work, and yet instead of tackling the problem proactively, we do what amounts to sending a child to bed without supper. Somebody better get up off of their asses soon.
This country is in very poor shape in terms of infrastructure from a physical and logical perspective (our power grid is so antiquated that it is horrifying). Now if the KMC think tank can come up with this, can you imagine the depths that this may really go to?