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>> vulnerable to being slowly pwned and then shut down all at once in a catastrophic event A few years ago everyone thought that would happen to Ukraine, that
by sandworm101 2y ago
>> vulnerable to being slowly pwned and then shut down all at once in a catastrophic event
A few years ago everyone thought that would happen to Ukraine, that Russian hackers would shut down everything from water delivery to weapon systems. The hackers almost certainly tried, yet the lights remained on. Imho we overestimate the power of "nation-state hackers" and underestimate the resilience of our systems.
- alephnerd 2y agoUkraine also had a significant amount of non-computerized legacy infra from the Soviet era which reduced the scope of IT/OT attacks. On the other hand, because of early mover advantage, a lot of utilities in the US computerized fairly early but the upfront cost of maintenance remained high.
- djhn 2y agoWasn’t the initial first day blitz overwhelming many border-adjacent units and military bases was largely due to pwned 4g/5g infra and having those troops accurate location?
- singularity2001 2y agomy theory is that behind the scenes the Ukraine is a proxy Warzone for nation state hackers and while the support of weapons was limited the support in countering online attacks would be rather unlimited