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Why do you assume that it's a "foreign" actor? I think it is utterly idiotic to hold an event of such scale in a country which has seen several consecutive year
by ein0p 2y ago
Why do you assume that it's a "foreign" actor? I think it is utterly idiotic to hold an event of such scale in a country which has seen several consecutive years of mass protests. I mean sure, you can cordon off parts of Paris with fences and razor wire, but you can't do that with all of France.
- IshKebab 2y agoBecause nobody has claimed responsibility, and it's the sort of thing Russia does.
- dark-star 2y agoStill, why not a disgruntled ex-employee or a crafty IT-security student? Finding out how GSM-R works, where the towers are and what cables you have to cut is not exactly rocket-science If the past has shown anything, then that both politics and infrastructure providers greatly overestimate the skill required for disrupting/hacking such systems and networks...
- kergonath 2y ago> Still, why not a disgruntled ex-employee or a crafty IT-security student? “Simultaneous operations by 4 teams in different parts of the country” does not work well with “a disgruntled ex-employee or a crafty IT-security student” as a hypothesis.
- ein0p 2y agoYou don’t need a “team” to do what was done there by the looks of it. You need like 4 dudes, with pry bars and half a can of fuel. I’m actually surprised this does not happen more often. Not only is this infra not protected, it seems entirely infeasible to protect it, and the result to effort ratio is staggering
- IshKebab 2y ago4 dudes are not "a disgruntled ex employee".
- dark-star 2y agowell, it does not scream "state actor!" either though
- kergonath 2y agoA bit late for this thread now, but the deafening silence since the sabotage is interesting in itself. We’d expect militants to make some noise at some point, after all these sort of things are mostly about communication. And yet I don’t really see this being in the interest of any state actor (if disrupting the country is the point, there are easier and more effective ways of doing it). I look forward to getting more detail a couple of years from now, when information will slowly filter out.
- sofixa 2y agoBecause it's the only logical conclusion and multiple Russians have already been arrested in France for plotting to disrupt the Olympics, including one who set himself on fire with chemicals in his hotel room. Oh and Russians have been doing this sort of thing all over Europe for the past few years. If this were an internal political entity they would have already claimed responsibility and put out a manifesto.
- TacticalCoder 2y ago> Because it's the only logical conclusion and multiple Russians have already been arrested in France for plotting to disrupt the Olympics In Belgium they arrested seven muslim terrorists who were planning a terror attack during the Olympics, they were from Chechnya (so, technically, russian but it sounded like the usual islamic terror attacks that was planned and not some "russia vs the west" thing).
- mistermann 2y ago> It's frightening how easy it is for an foreign actor to knock out a country's railway system It's frightening how easy it is to establish as a cultural norm that guessing is proper thinking.
- holoduke 2y ago[flagged]