JOURNAL: Just How Easy it to Disrupt Infrastructure?
Originally from: Global Guerrillas.
JOURNAL: Just How Easy it to Disrupt Infrastructure?:
Here’s a great example of how easy it is to disrupt critical infrastructure, without computer skills (which is one of the reasons I believe, based on a broad number of examples, it is a more useful method of warfare).
Vandals cut off cellular, Internet and landline phone service to 52,000 thousand people today in the San Francisco Bay area. Cables were cut in two places. Four ATT fiber optic cables were cut at 1:30 AM at a site adjacent to a highway/railroad and another pair (ATT/Sprint) were cut two hours later in a residential area. The operation was simple: lift a heavy manhole cover and cut the cables with a blow torch. As is the rule, nobody was caught, or likely to be caught.
This type of attack has become a staple of 21st Century warfare. Weak groups attack infrastructure, find it is powerful, and amplify their effort. Learning occurs. Other weak groups copy the pattern. Learning is shared via stigmergy and direct collaboration. As the frequency and quality of the attacks improve, we eventually see routine attacks on systempunkts – nodes on the network that are so critical, that when they are damaged, it causes cascades of failure and ROIs with incredible multiples.
Here’s a fiber optic map via bitgravity
