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> If you wanted to test your cyber weapons, I’d imagine you wouldn’t want to draw too much attention to yourself by testing them simultaneously. True, but that
by PhasmaFelis 8y ago
> If you wanted to test your cyber weapons, I’d imagine you wouldn’t want to draw too much attention to yourself by testing them simultaneously.
True, but that assumes this would be a test rather than an actual attack. There are motives where substantial but non-crippling disruption could be the goal.
- Moru 8y agoYou don't test your cyber weapons so anyone notices. It's giving away that you have a weapon and gives your enemy time to adapt and protect themselves. Mabe it's someone tired of the boss not listening to the complaints of potentially crippling bugs in the security and is now doing a presentation of what would happen to society if he does not get to fix the bug? Or a provider of DDOS-protection that is running their own DDOS botnet for kicks? Mirai comes to mind here... :-)
- PhasmaFelis 8y ago> You don't test your cyber weapons so anyone notices. Yes, I know. I'm saying it's not impossible that this is an actual attack, not a test.