CYBERWAR: Infrastructure Attacks

[dewline]

This post isn't meant for my regular friendlisters. It's meant for a very particular audience.

I heard about what was done to Ukraine a few years back.

And then Trump.

And now this:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cse-threat-assesment-1.5806213

If you're involved in this crap and you're reading this and you can understand what I am saying?

Find a way to cut this shit out. I'm a regular Canadian citizen who doesn't need this "Great Game" shit messing up my life or anyone else's for that matter, whether I know who they are or not. I am getting fed up with people who want to go back to the 19th or 18th Centuries, with nukes and bioweapons and cyberwarfare added into the mess.

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[armiphlage]

I attended a (virtual) seminar last week about information technology in the mining industry.

Most mines in Canada have completely separated their controls systems from the internet, because of external actors that keep trying to hack them and crash their equipment.

As in actually crash it, by causing robotic drills and loaders to smash into each other.

It's a bit too targeted and technologically adept for someone just doing it for fun.

[dewline]

Yeah, that's going to create real safety issues for flesh-and-blood mine workers if tolerated at all.

[armiphlage]

The presenter said "state actors", but then backpedaled and said "external actors". But I got the impression they know who in general is specifically targeting Canadian mining infrastructure.

[thewayne]

Not to mention messing with people's elections. This shit has got to stop.

[dewline]

Yes, it does.

And on a tangent, there's this talk about plucking eyes out from representatives of mainland China:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-54995227

The pun comes to mind: pluck around and find out how much trouble our governments will see fit to make for the Xi Regime.