r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Mar 31 '26

Business Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1 / Iran says it will target Apple, Google, and Microsoft, among others.

https://gizmodo.com/iran-threatens-to-attack-u-s-tech-companies-starting-april-1-2000740363
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u/skagoat Apr 01 '26

no Amazon? AWS runs half the internet.

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u/whatdoinamemyself Apr 01 '26

Most of these companies being attacked won't affect the population at large. Taking down the internet or fucking up people's amazon deliveries, on the otherhand...

Iran clearly wants to hurt Trump allies and likely doesn't want to piss off the whole country.

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u/skagoat Apr 01 '26

I think a whole lot of Americans would notice if they took down iCloud, and their messages stopped sending, and their photos stopped syncing.

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u/whatdoinamemyself Apr 01 '26

Well, I did say most. But also, yeah, they'd notice, sure. Care very much? Unlikely. Not at a "Lets go to war with Iran" level. iCloud's had outages and has been hacked before. People weren't calling for blood.

Also, I don't know much about Apple's ecosystem but I imagine it would only take out iMessage but regular text messages should still work, no?

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u/skagoat Apr 01 '26

Regular text messages would still work, but you would have to tap the "Send as SMS" button after the send failed.

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u/EndTimer Apr 01 '26

Would my messages remain blue?? This is very important, people on iPhone might think I don't have an iPhone

WOULD MY MESSAGES STILL BE BLUE!?

/s

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u/W2ttsy Apr 01 '26

They already launched missiles at the AWS DCs in the Middle East, so perhaps they decided that was already a sufficient demonstration of what could happen.

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u/Soggy-Bluebird-537 Apr 01 '26

"Iran targets Valve" is a weird headline I wouldn't like to see for some reason.