Keep the population of hostile countries uneasy at all times, destabilise a bit here and there, help them argue about stupid identity politics instead of focusing on things that actually matter.
When people become complacent about Russians poking around here and there, breaking in and not doing anything etc - then when they actually need to act, the defence will be lukewarm.
If you're looking for what the damage was, it failed.
Potential damage: "Most notable was one [attack] in Ukraine in December 2015. It left roughly 230,000 people without electricity for about six hours during one of the coldest months of the year."
My first pass through the title was "Those windshield wipers shouldn't need to be internet-connected."
Thankfully, the article did clear that up, but the fact that my brain didn't even think, "that's a stupid idea that no one would buy that" is a bit depressing.
The Jaguar hack cost the UK $2.5Bn and dropped production to levels you'd normally only see during open warfare. Recovery took many months, and the financial damage persists today.
We still operate with a primitive homunculi where a gunshot is considered aggressive, but sabotaging infrastructure that can kill hundreds from cold is being waved at.
Since the start of the war, Russia will rather admit incompetence (a soldier was smoking next to an ammo depot) than admit Ukraine succeeded in a military objective.
Will this be the time that EU grows a spine and comes together to oppose Russia?
Naaa, better continue to have Germany and France continue to destroy the Union by looking only at their self interests while they pretend to talk tough on Trump and sabotage any real internal changes so that they can keep their crumbs.
Just this week, France’s meddling halted a deal that was 30 years in the making: Mercosul while their president, in all his virtue signaling went on Davos to pretend to have the moral upper hand on the USA.
We’re a union of hypocrites. And France and Germany are the worst of them.
This war will likely clean some old electronics providers from the market. You are either very good at security (and that does not mean "airgap" all the things- if your plc needs a special laptop to connect to, the malware just needs to go for those laptops) or you are out of buisness in regions under threat permanently.
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[ 1.5 ms ] story [ 40.5 ms ] threadIt's the Russian doctrine
Keep the population of hostile countries uneasy at all times, destabilise a bit here and there, help them argue about stupid identity politics instead of focusing on things that actually matter.
When people become complacent about Russians poking around here and there, breaking in and not doing anything etc - then when they actually need to act, the defence will be lukewarm.
Potential damage: "Most notable was one [attack] in Ukraine in December 2015. It left roughly 230,000 people without electricity for about six hours during one of the coldest months of the year."
Thankfully, the article did clear that up, but the fact that my brain didn't even think, "that's a stupid idea that no one would buy that" is a bit depressing.
We still operate with a primitive homunculi where a gunshot is considered aggressive, but sabotaging infrastructure that can kill hundreds from cold is being waved at.
Why not?? Is Russia's grid infrastructure so old as to not be as vulnerable?
Since the start of the war, Russia will rather admit incompetence (a soldier was smoking next to an ammo depot) than admit Ukraine succeeded in a military objective.
Naaa, better continue to have Germany and France continue to destroy the Union by looking only at their self interests while they pretend to talk tough on Trump and sabotage any real internal changes so that they can keep their crumbs.
Just this week, France’s meddling halted a deal that was 30 years in the making: Mercosul while their president, in all his virtue signaling went on Davos to pretend to have the moral upper hand on the USA.
We’re a union of hypocrites. And France and Germany are the worst of them.