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Sabotage works by introducing friction into your opponents activities. Sabotaging one piece of one data center doesn't do much, but the more you do, the more ou
by OkayPhysicist 3mo ago
Sabotage works by introducing friction into your opponents activities. Sabotaging one piece of one data center doesn't do much, but the more you do, the more outsized the impact.
Imagine I'm a factory building widgets. If I buy materials, my default assumption is that I get the materials I asked for. If 5% of the time, or even 1% of the time, my vendor sends me junk that breaks my machines, now I have to introduce a step to verify that the vendor sent me the right ingredients to every widget. That's an asymmetric cost.
The messaging for something like this wants to be "we publicly announced and took credit for this this time", because it's good publicity, and the threat of future, clandestine attacks increases costs across the board. If you can include exactly how you did it, you might even inspire copycats.
- OutOfHere 3mo ago> my vendor sends me junk Indeed. A single bad review of a product from a user, if justified, can build the impetus to destroy a product. Three bad reviews probably will. Insurance costs too can be affected.
- teeray 3mo agoThis is also all the sabotage the saboteurs have volunteered to tell you about. If your opsec has allowed sabotage to happen, it’s prudent to assume there’s other sabotage you don’t know about.
- inigyou 3mo agoSince the saboteurs are protesters they want to be loud and reveal everything they did (but not how, or their individual identities).
- baggy_trough 3mo ago[flagged]
- DougN7 3mo agoToo bad all those Nazi saboteurs back in the 1940’s weren’t all caught and dealt with! (Right?)
- baggy_trough 3mo agoI am not sure what point you are making.
- inigyou 3mo agoLots of people sabotaged the Nazis. You think they need to be dealt with on the harshest terms.
- baggy_trough 3mo agoIt would have been in the interests of the Nazis to do so!
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- inigyou 3mo ago> It would have been in the interests of the Nazis to do so! Then you should probably ask yourself why your recommended course of action is in the interests of the Nazis?
- ieatcandlewax 3mo ago"You know who else reacted to foreign backed industrial sabotage campaigns? Hitler" this is deep stuff dude. you should run for office
- baggy_trough 3mo agoAstonishing reply. It would also be in their interests for Nazis to eat three meals a day, tip their hat to old ladies in the street, and get a good night's rest.
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