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Actually the Trans-Siberian pipeline made this acceptable, which was a cyber attack in peacetime responsible for the largest man-made non-nuclear explosion in h
by s_q_b 12y ago
Actually the Trans-Siberian pipeline made this acceptable, which was a cyber attack in peacetime responsible for the largest man-made non-nuclear explosion in history. Or the Turkish pipeline attack. Or the Enigma Machine hack.
The crucial parts of warfare systems are C4ISR: Command, Control, Communications, Computation, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Recognizance.
Computer systems have been a target of covert ops for as long as they have existed. What's happening now is that middle-weight nations (North Korea, Iran) and non-state actors (Anonymous, al-Qassam) are now able to get in on the game, which is disrupting the status quo established by the USA and USSR.
- ForcesOfOdin 12y agoDamn. Dominating. Tell me more.
- happyscrappy 12y agoIn the Trans Siberian pipeline explosion the KGB stole some Canadian software that had been booby trapped. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage
- rab_oof 12y agoUnambiguous rankings of explosions is basically impossible, so claiming it was the biggest man-made explosion in history is nonsense. This overly-bold claim was promulgated by former Air Force secretary Thomas C. Reed. http://seanlinnane.blogspot.com/2014/12/largest-man-made-non-nuclear-explosions.html?m=1 http://seanlinnane.blogspot.com/2014/12/largest-man-made-non... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_artificial...
- s_q_b 12y agoWe can agree it was a pretty large fuel-air explosion caused by the failure of SCADA software? The rest is just details.