I think we’re lucky that the compromise was ham fisted enough to be trivially detectable. I’m sure other, better attacks exist, implemented by smarter actors.

I think we’re lucky that the compromise was ham fisted enough to be trivially detectable. I’m sure other, better attacks exist, implemented by smarter actors. Software is a national security threat because IT is increasingly dependent on computing. Plenty of civilian tech is being used in Ukraine to good effect. Smart stakeholders are going to watch where stuff is used and target the supply chain. It may be Russians, Mideast stakeholders, or domestic extremists. Software is to 2024 what a truck bomb was in 1994.