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You need to consider the externalities of the activity, which in this case includes taking a whole country offline. I strongly believe this would make the whole
by noelwelsh 1y ago
You need to consider the externalities of the activity, which in this case includes taking a whole country offline. I strongly believe this would make the whole activity a net negative. I very much doubt that recycling some copper wires produces more value than the cost of losing the Internet and fixing the cable.
Recycling old cables is probably valuable, in isolation, but not when this can occur.
- imoverclocked 1y agoNow we are pretty deep in the weeds ... but ... what about the value-added activity of finding a single point of failure for a critical resource? It seems hard to compare the value of material goods against the stream of time.
- noelwelsh 1y agoMy understanding is that ISPs have good maps of their cables, so I doubt the SPOF was something that didn't know about. However, I take the wider point that calculating all the externalities is at least difficult and probably impossible. At the very least, updating their threat model to include "Grandma with spade" was probably some benefit they gained :-)