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China watching with open eyes. This will happen the day that they try to take Taiwan, worldwide, in my opinion.
by mmsc 1y ago
China watching with open eyes.
This will happen the day that they try to take Taiwan, worldwide, in my opinion.
- whycome 1y agoGotta hold onto the 0day for that one.
- pmontra 1y agoOnly if they absolutely need it. Nobody would spoil an asset like that. Maybe they would turn off mobile in Taiwan if they control their network. I didn't check which technology provider they use.
- nailer 1y agoI don't think it would permanently spoil anything. China would just stop the phone network from being used to coordinate a response.
- pmontra 1y agoNo mobile network can be an inconvenience but who has to respond will have the means to communicate no matter what. Furthermore every single common person will feel a personal level of danger and they won't simply shrug about the destiny of a remote island somewhere on the map.
- nailer 1y agoThe people we are talking about live in Taiwan, so Taiwan is not a remote island for them.
- aftbit 1y agoI do think there's a better than average chance that WW3 starts not with an open nuclear exchange as our parents imagined, but instead with a substantial cyberattack which shuts down power, water treatment, communications, hospitals, public transportation, etc. This might even be deniable / grey zone for a few hours or days while the belligerent parties use the chaos to accomplish some Blitzkrieg style attacks.
- TheOtherHobbes 1y agoThat's stage 2. Stage 1 is election fixing, subversion and capture of foreign governments through bribery and kompromat.
- messe 1y agoYeah that's why we're expecting stage 2 next.
- hollerith 1y agoIf that were possible, then why didn't Russia, which might have the most experienced pool of cyber-attack skills in the world, do it to Ukraine?
- codezero 1y agothey sincerely didn't think they'd need to
- ifwinterco 1y agoThey did try, but ukraine were suspicious something was going to happen (massive army suddenly forming near their border) and they had spent time securing stuff
- cess11 1y agoThey'd also done it on and off for like a decade already so everyone was used to it and had mitigations in place.
- sim7c00 1y agoit would get them nothing. they did attack satcom systems to the point of bricking them. what do you think would happen if you turn off critical infra for a country? mass civilian death/suffering. military likely hardly affected but extremely motivated... its counter productive.
- rwmj 1y agoWhy? They'll take down BT landlines in case I need to call my auntie and tell her about the news?
- exe34 1y agotbh breaking public internet/phones will probably be done by a local government trying to do something nasty. Stop people coordinating and turning up places they might get in the way. I think my tin foil hat was askew. There. All better.