What would Cyberwar look like?

[mental_mouse]

This is a pretty good idea of what could be done. Add in a few infrastructure attacks as opportunity allows, but this sort of social attack could be amazingly damaging even on its own. Via the inimitable Bruce Schneier.

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[voidampersand]

Cover story on this month's WIRED. An actual military cyber attack last year that had a lot of collateral damage:
https://www.wired.com/story/notpetya-cyberattack-ukraine-russia-code-crashed-the-world/

[mental_mouse]

Thanks! That was basically a classic infrastructure attack. Now imagine that being backed up by a social-poisoning attack to interfere with the response....

[mental_mouse]

Or a infrastructure attack could look like these blasts in Massachusetts.