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JimboSaturn · 51-55, M
@ArishMell Yes from Atlantic to the Pacific. Most of the country
JimboSaturn · 51-55, M
@ArishMell No details I have a feeling it was a cyber attack
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@JimboSaturn I'd wondered that, too. I'd have expected you would have received an official announcement saying why it happened. Maybe you still will.
It seems a difficult balance. No technical system is entirely safe from breakdown, and the best approach the service company could use is to be open and honest, and state the cause. If an attack though, saying so and giving too much information about it could encourage the attackers by confirming their "success".
Quite a few countries have suffered cyber attacks of one sort or another, with the most serious traced to countries like Russia, China and North Korea (the last is one of the world's leaders in developing attack software). I have speculated that some of those incidents were to test their attack methods and their victims' defences. If so, I dread to think what would happen if used "in anger" - as a weapon of war.
It seems a difficult balance. No technical system is entirely safe from breakdown, and the best approach the service company could use is to be open and honest, and state the cause. If an attack though, saying so and giving too much information about it could encourage the attackers by confirming their "success".
Quite a few countries have suffered cyber attacks of one sort or another, with the most serious traced to countries like Russia, China and North Korea (the last is one of the world's leaders in developing attack software). I have speculated that some of those incidents were to test their attack methods and their victims' defences. If so, I dread to think what would happen if used "in anger" - as a weapon of war.