U.S. Considering Large Scale Use of Offensive Cyberweapons Against Russia
February 25th, 2022This is from an email I wrote to a friend a couple of weeks ago. After mentioning some aspects of the COVID scam, I wrote:
The whole thing lurches from one giant scam to the next. I just hope the next one doesn’t involve mushroom clouds.
Flash forward to today.
I haven’t been posting much, because I’m sitting here bugeyed and transfixed by what’s happening. As I watch video of Hind Mi-24 gunships swooping over the Ukrainian countryside, I would encourage anyone reading this from .gov and .mil domains to keep one thing in mind when it comes to cyber: What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
No country is more vulnerable to cyber than the United States.
Cyber can get very dangerous. Besides effects that can rival kinetic attacks, cyber runs the risk of increasing, “The fog of war.” Increasing the fog of war between nuclear armed belligerents… could be bad.
Via: NBC:
President Joe Biden has been presented with a menu of options for the U.S. to carry out massive cyberattacks designed to disrupt Russia’s ability to sustain its military operations in Ukraine, four people familiar with the deliberations tell NBC News.
Two U.S. intelligence officials, one Western intelligence official and another person briefed on the matter say no final decisions have been made, but they say U.S. intelligence and military cyber warriors are proposing the use of American cyberweapons on a scale never before contemplated. Among the options: disrupting internet connectivity across Russia, shutting off electric power, and tampering with railroad switches to hamper Russia’s ability to resupply its forces, three of the sources said.
